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We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.

~Barbara Kingsolver

Topics: Animal Animals Around Born Disguised Every Like Live Lives Other Our Thoughts Whole

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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

~Barbara Kingsolver

Topics: Grow Grow Up Guess Quicker See Them Up Would You

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What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.

~Barbara Kingsolver

Topics: Around Blindness Could Exist Lose Might Nowhere Place Space Where Without You

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The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

~Barbara Kingsolver

Topics: Ability Always Another Brains Carry Else Go Hands House Important Important Thing Life Looking Make One Thing Somewhere Somewhere Else Thing Wherever You Your

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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.

~Barbara Kingsolver

Topics: About Best Best Work Offer Think Work I Think

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I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.

~Barbara Kingsolver

Topics: Any Anything Commentary Going Never Political Think Way Writing

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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

~Barbara Kingsolver

Topics: Create Empathy Essays Fiction Stranger Theoretical

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When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.

~Barbara Kingsolver

Topics: Another Become Bed Down Duration Life Novel Own Person Pick Put Same Same Time Side Table Time Up You Your

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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.

~Barbara Kingsolver

Topics: Always Been Behave Believe History How Impact May Nation Part Powerful You Your Yourself

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I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.

~Barbara Kingsolver

Topics: Doing Know Pretending

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: April 8th, 1955

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