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Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and older authors tend to have more of it.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
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I have my own sheep and I literally sheer the sheep and knot sweaters for friends and family from scratch.
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Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.
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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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If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
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Memories do not always soften with time some grow edges like knives.
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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
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Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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It's terrible to lose somebody, but it's also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that's got to be so much worse.
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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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Do you think its possible to live without wanting to put your name on your paintings? To belong to a group so securely you don't need to rise above it?
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The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
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I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
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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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Memory runs along deep, fixed channels in the brain, like electricity along its conduits only a cataclysm can make the electrons rear up in shock and slide over into another channel. The human mind seems doomed to believe, as simply as a rooster believes, that where we are now is the only possibility
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Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers will go to stupefying lengths to get the infernal roar of words out of their skulls and onto paper.
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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
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Hunger of the body is altogether different from the shallow, daily hunger of the belly. Those who have known this kind of hunger cannot entirely love, ever again, those who have not.
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If someone does learn about the world from reading a novel of mine, that makes me very happy. It's probably not what brings me into the novel in the first place - I usually am pulled in by some big question about the world and human nature that I'm not going to resolve in the course of the novel. But I'm very devoted to getting my facts straight.
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A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience, but remember, the forest eats itself and lives forever.
Barbara Kingsolver
The wrong words are impossible when there are no words.
Barbara Kingsolver
