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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
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Tomorrow these villagers would carry their secret icons into the church without any priest and light the candles themselves, moving together in single-minded grace. Like the school of the fish, so driven to righteousness they could flout the law, declare the safety of their souls, then go home and destroy the evidence.
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I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer's block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don't. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.
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Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
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High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
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The longer you live, the more likely you are to have something to say.
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There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.
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Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
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Mother could go for one year without food, but not one day without her lip sticks.
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He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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I'm never going to tell the reader what to believe I'm going to examine these characters that believe different ways, and examine their motives.
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Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is.
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Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next, are few enough to fit in a bucket, with room enough left to rattle like brittle brush in a dry wind.
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But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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Scientific illiteracy in our populations is leaving too many of us unprepared to discuss or understand much of the damage we are wreaking on our atmosphere, our habitat, and even the food that enters our mouths.
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Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers will go to stupefying lengths to get the infernal roar of words out of their skulls and onto paper.
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In fact, one of the things that I really love about literary fiction is that it's one of the few kinds of writing that doesn't tell us what to think or what to buy or what to wear. We're surrounded by advertising.
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