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Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
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Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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They all attended Hester's church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.
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You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
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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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Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you're contagious.
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There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.
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There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but you haven't told anyone yet.
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It is completely usual for me to get up in the morning, take a look around, and laugh out loud.
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Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is.
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Loose lips sink ships.
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We agreed with him in principal - we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
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You force people to stop asking questions, and before you know it they have auctioned off the question mark, or sold it for scrap. No boldness. No good ideas for fixing what's broken in the land. Because if you happen to mention it's broken, you are automatically disqualified.
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Memories do not always soften with time some grow edges like knives.
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It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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A flower is your cousin...Sometimes a person has got to take a life, like a chicken's or a hog's when you need it...But nobody is so hungry they need to kill a flower. Cherokee great-grandmother
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It's terrible to lose somebody, but it's also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that's got to be so much worse.
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(on asparagus) Europeans of the Renaissance swore by it as an aphrodisiac, and the church banned it from nunneries.
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From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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