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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
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Nine-tenths of human law is about possession.
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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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I prefer to remain anomalous.
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...whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. And peace will be with you.
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
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It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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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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This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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Sometimes I prayed for Baby Jesus to make me good, but Baby Jesus didn't.
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It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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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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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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I believe with all my heart in delivering on my contract with my readers. They've got plenty of other things to do, so I had better give them a reason to turn every one of these 550 pages. This is my promise: I solemnly swear I'll make you laugh out loud at least once, cry a little in private, and burn whatever you left on the stove.
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a meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth.
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You don't think you'll live past it and you don't really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that's still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.
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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
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Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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One of the very first things I figured out about life...is that it's better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you're hopeful, you have more fun.
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