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The way I see it, a person isn't nothing more than a scarecrow... The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they're stuck up there on.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Good
Blow
Difference
Differences
Scarecrow
Persons
Blows
Person
Stick
Nothing
Stands
Kind
Sticks
Way
Stuck

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I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.
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...our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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Americans who read and think are patriots of the first order. The kind who know enough to roll their eyes whenever anyone tries to claim sole custody of the flag and weild it as a blunt instrument. There are as many ways to love America as there are Americans, and our country needs us all.
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If someone does learn about the world from reading a novel of mine, that makes me very happy. It's probably not what brings me into the novel in the first place - I usually am pulled in by some big question about the world and human nature that I'm not going to resolve in the course of the novel. But I'm very devoted to getting my facts straight.
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Food is the rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is generally the one more likely to make you groan with pleasure.
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Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man's skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people's back yards.
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Memory runs along deep, fixed channels in the brain, like electricity along its conduits only a cataclysm can make the electrons rear up in shock and slide over into another channel. The human mind seems doomed to believe, as simply as a rooster believes, that where we are now is the only possibility
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But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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A breeze shook rain out of new leaves onto their hair, but in their pursuit of eternity they never noticed the chill.
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This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market.
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No matter what kind of night you're having, morning always wins.
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Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you're contagious.
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Come to think of it, just about every tool was shaped like either a weenie or a pistol, depending on your point of view.
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Memories do not always soften with time some grow edges like knives.
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In the places that call me out, I know I'll recover my wordless childhood trust in the largeness of life and its willingness to take me in.
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Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.
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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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