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The longer you live, the more likely you are to have something to say.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Likely
Longer
Live
Something

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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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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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Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.
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Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.
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Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what's not in it.
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you can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece
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Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.
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Everything truly important is washable.
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No matter what kind of night you're having, morning always wins.
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A dog can't think that much about what he's doing, he just does what feels right.
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restraint equals indulgence
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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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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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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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For scientists, reality is not optional.
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I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.
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If you're standing in the manure pile, it's somebody's job to mention the stink.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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