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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
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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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I think that when people read fiction, they're really reading for wisdom. I am. That's what most of us really love. If we read a novel that rocks our world, it's because there's something in it that we didn't know already. Not just information but really wisdom - sort of what to do with our information. And wisdom comes from experience.
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It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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Hallie and I... were all there was. The image in the mirror that proves you are still here. We had exactly one sister apiece. We grew up knowing the simple arithmetic of scarcity: A sister is more precious than an eye.
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A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You examine every turn of flesh for precocity, and crow it to the world. But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after--oh, that' s love by a different name.
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Children can be your heartache. But that doesn't matter, you have to go on and have them . . . it works out.
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The march of human progress seemed mainly a matter of getting over that initial shock of being here.
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Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
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Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
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Hunger of the body is altogether different from the shallow, daily hunger of the belly. Those who have known this kind of hunger cannot entirely love, ever again, those who have not.
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Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin.
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Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.
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The standard approach has been to pump up the dosage of chemicals ... Twenty percent of these approved-for-use pesticides are listed by the EPA as carcinogenic in humans.
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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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We're surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
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A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn't do.
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Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least.
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A dog can't think that much about what he's doing, he just does what feels right.
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there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I'm concerned that's like accusing a dog of having a bark!
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The longer you live, the more likely you are to have something to say.
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