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...our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
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Annapolis
Maryland
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Forward
Move
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Others
Slide
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Backward

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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.
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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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I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
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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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Do you think its possible to live without wanting to put your name on your paintings? To belong to a group so securely you don't need to rise above it?
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A woman without a man -- a condition of 'manlessness' -- is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife.
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Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've only found sorrow.
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Perhaps growing up meant we put our knives away and feigned ignorance of the damage.
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The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
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If it's important, your heart remembers.
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How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.
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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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It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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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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If I had to give up my life for anything, it would have to have the resilience of hope, the elation of new literacy, the brilliant life of a field of flowers, the elementary kindness of bread. Nothing short of that. It would have to be something as sure as love.
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There are some who'd hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think's been too lucky.
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Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
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From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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