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

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Body
Always
Story
Stories

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How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
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Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin.
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The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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This Forest eats itself and lives forever.
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What we end up calling history is a kind of knife, slicing down through time. A few people are hard enough to bend its edge. But most won't even stand close to the blade. I'm one of those. We don't bend anything.
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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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The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.
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From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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Perhaps growing up meant we put our knives away and feigned ignorance of the damage.
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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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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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You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own.
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It is completely usual for me to get up in the morning, take a look around, and laugh out loud.
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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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Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back.
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A flower is a plant's way of making love.
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There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.
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It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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