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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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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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A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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We agreed with him in principal - we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
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In the places that call me out, I know I'll recover my wordless childhood trust in the largeness of life and its willingness to take me in.
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Scientific illiteracy in our populations is leaving too many of us unprepared to discuss or understand much of the damage we are wreaking on our atmosphere, our habitat, and even the food that enters our mouths.
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My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it. I can't imagine what kind of writer I'd be if I didn't have my kids.
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From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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People ask without wanting to know.
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I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.
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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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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
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A flower is your cousin...Sometimes a person has got to take a life, like a chicken's or a hog's when you need it...But nobody is so hungry they need to kill a flower. Cherokee great-grandmother
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it's the thing you fear most that walks beside you all the time.
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As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer's long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn't touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn't stop.
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He was getting that look he gets, oh boy, like Here comes Moses tromping down off of Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck your life.
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It's what you do that makes your soul.
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(on asparagus) Europeans of the Renaissance swore by it as an aphrodisiac, and the church banned it from nunneries.
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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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