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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
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Tasks
Forward
Move
Moving
Insisting
Others
Slide
Best
Slides
Without
Backward
Task

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In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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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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Loose lips sink ships.
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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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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
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Sometimes I prayed for Baby Jesus to make me good, but Baby Jesus didn't.
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Silence has many advantages. When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations.
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For scientists, reality is not optional.
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Most of the girls my age, or even younger, have babies. They appear way too young to be married, till you look in their eyes. Then you'll see it. Their eyes look happy and sad at the same time, but unexcited by anything, shifting easily off to the side as if they've already seen most of what there is. Married eyes.
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I can think of no honorable answer. Why must some of us deliberate between brands of toothpaste, while others deliberate between damp dirt and bone dust to quiet the fire of an empty stomach lining? There is nothing about the United States I can really explain to this child of another world.
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When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine. Pigs in Heaven
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For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past
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We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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