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Food is the rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is generally the one more likely to make you groan with pleasure.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
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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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To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!
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Root out all the to be verbs in your prose and bludgeon them until dead. No It was or they are or I am. Don't let it be, make it happen.
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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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We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see, be, or believe. It's more like conversation, raising new questions and inspiring you to answer them for yourself.
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it takes your sleeping self years to catch up to where you really are. ... when you go on a trip, in your dreams you will still be home. Then after you've come home you'll dream of where you were. It's a kind of jet lag of the consciousness.
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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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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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This Forest eats itself and lives forever.
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What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.
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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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I have my own sheep and I literally sheer the sheep and knot sweaters for friends and family from scratch.
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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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What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
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The standard approach has been to pump up the dosage of chemicals ... Twenty percent of these approved-for-use pesticides are listed by the EPA as carcinogenic in humans.
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The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.
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The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
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Nine-tenths of human law is about possession.
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Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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