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Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
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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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Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back.
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I've about decided that's the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you're a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.
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I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.
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Everything truly important is washable.
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I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
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My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand fit.
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I concentrate on character, theme, language, structure, voice. It actually surprises me that no matter what I write, people declare it intently political. I'm just writing about the world I know, as it is. Wounds and griefs included.
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For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.
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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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Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life.
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Mother could go for one year without food, but not one day without her lip sticks.
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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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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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It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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you can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece
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You force people to stop asking questions, and before you know it they have auctioned off the question mark, or sold it for scrap. No boldness. No good ideas for fixing what's broken in the land. Because if you happen to mention it's broken, you are automatically disqualified.
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Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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Nine-tenths of human law is about possession.
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