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There's always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Stories
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No matter what kind of night you're having, morning always wins.
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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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Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.
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Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms.
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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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A flower is a plant's way of making love.
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The arrogance of the able-bodied is staggering. Yes, maybe we'd like to be able to get places quickly, and carry things in both hands but only because we have to keep up with the rest of you ... We would rather be just like us, and have that be all right.
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I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night.
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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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The way I see it, a person isn't nothing more than a scarecrow... The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they're stuck up there on.
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It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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The wrong words are impossible when there are no words.
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Like Daniel she enteres the lions' den, but lacking Daniel's pure and unblemished soul, Ada is spiced with the flavors of vice that make for a tasty meal. Pure and unblemished souls must taste very bland, with an aftertaste of bitterness.
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You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they're not self-sufficient.
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Let me claim that Africa and I kept company for a while and then parted ways as if we were both party to relations with a failed outcome. Or say I was afflicted with Africa like a bout of a rare disease from which I have not managed a full recovery.
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Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
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Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life.
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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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There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.
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The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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