He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

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He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.

Barbara Kingsolver

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I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer’s block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don’t. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer’s block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don’t. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Block Jobs Waiting
She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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Found Rocks Swimming
I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Best Work
The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
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Vacation
Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he’s entitled to joy rather than submission?

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he’s entitled to joy rather than submission?
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As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

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Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Dirt might Today
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.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Moving
Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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Vegetables
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.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Automobile Feet Two
In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career – my anti-job – that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career – my anti-job – that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Careers Jobs
How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you’ll behave to other people.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you’ll behave to other people.
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Everything truly important is washable.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Everything truly important is washable.
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Housework
Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just turned loose elephantiasis and microes that eat the human cornea. Now I understand, God is not just rooting fo the dollies.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just turned loose elephantiasis and microes that eat the human cornea. Now I understand, God is not just rooting fo the dollies.
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