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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.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
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Morality is not a large, constructed *thing* you have or have not, but simply a capacity. Something you carry with you in your brain and in your hands.
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If you ask me, when something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make it the best home you can.
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Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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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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Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.
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I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
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Americans who read and think are patriots of the first order. The kind who know enough to roll their eyes whenever anyone tries to claim sole custody of the flag and weild it as a blunt instrument. There are as many ways to love America as there are Americans, and our country needs us all.
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Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life.
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Ah, the mysterious croak. Here today, gone tomorrow. It's the best reason I can think of to throw open the blinds and risk belief. Right now, this minute, time to move out into the grief and glory. High tide.
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You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own.
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
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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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The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.
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I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
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God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.
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Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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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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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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Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.
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