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I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that.

~Barbara Kingsolver

Topics: Against Between Border Come Cultures Each Experience Gave Human Human Experience Insight Interesting Living Lot Many Me Mexico Might Most Other Parts So Many Years Sort Sparks Think Years I Think

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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

~Barbara Kingsolver

Topics: Another Ask Creates Empathy Eyes Fiction Good Life Live Look Novel Person Somewhere Takes Through You

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What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.

~Barbara Kingsolver

Topics: Essay Fiction Fiction Writer Humanity Own People Poet Writer

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Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.

~Barbara Kingsolver

Topics: Clearly Even Few Few People Fountain Hope Know Most Penny People Think Throw Want

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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.

~Barbara Kingsolver

Topics: Airplane Engine Every Every Time Good Hard Just Just Do It Know Looking Onto Right Stare Step Take Time Turn

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It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

~Barbara Kingsolver

Topics: Around Built How How Much Memory Much Surprising Things Time Unnoticed

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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

~Barbara Kingsolver

Topics: Admire Distance Figure Hope Inside Least Life Live Most Out Right Roof Very You Your

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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!

~Barbara Kingsolver

Topics: After Another Basic Crying Embrace Glorious High Hopeful Instinct Life Move Out Possibility Surely Take Tide Time

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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

~Barbara Kingsolver

Topics: Adds Big Both Daily Daily Work Elections Goes Long Long Run Matter Run Small Too Up Wars Work

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When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to prevail; they fear someone else will get their piece of the pie.

~Barbara Kingsolver

Topics: About Begins Else Fear Frightened Get Going Hungry Model Mortgages Paying People Pie Piece Prevail Scarcity Someone Will

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: April 8th, 1955

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