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

— Barbara Kingsolver

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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

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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

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At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

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Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

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Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

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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

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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

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I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

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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

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