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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
Something
Likely
Longer
Live

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Bitter words normally evaporate with the moisture of breath, after a quarrel. In order to become permanent, they require transcribers, reporters, complicit black hearts.
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People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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It's very important to distinguish between innocence and naivete. The innocent do not deserve to be the victims of violence. But only the naive refuse to think about the origins of violence and to pursue the possibility that the genesis of that hatred could be addressed.
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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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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
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Arterial-plaque specials that save minutes now can cost years, later on.
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From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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A woman without a man -- a condition of 'manlessness' -- is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife.
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There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but you haven't told anyone yet.
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I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other.
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A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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The march of human progress seemed mainly a matter of getting over that initial shock of being here.
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My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my head is too full of words, and I just need to get to my desk and start dumping them into a file. I always wake with sentences pouring into my head.
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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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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.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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