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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
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Annapolis
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Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
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Arterial-plaque specials that save minutes now can cost years, later on.
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One of the very first things I figured out about life...is that it's better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you're hopeful, you have more fun.
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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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There's always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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I've never gotten over high school, to the extent that I'm still a little surprised that my friends want to hang out with me.
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The gods you do not pay are the ones that can curse you best.
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Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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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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Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It's just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.
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My way of finding a place in this world is to write one.
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... Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, 'so far from everything?' When I hear this question over the phone, I'm usually looking out the window at a forest, a running creek, and a vegetable garden, thinking: Define everything.
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Sometimes I prayed for Baby Jesus to make me good, but Baby Jesus didn't.
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I write every moment that is humanly possible. I write every day and every night. The only discipline I lack is the discipline is to quit.
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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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People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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...whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. And peace will be with you.
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There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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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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