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What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
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Annapolis
Maryland
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I believe that the people who survive a cataclysm, rather than those who stand by and analyze it, are nearly always the more credible witnesses to their own history.
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The substance of grief is not imaginary. It's as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill.
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When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.
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Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and older authors tend to have more of it.
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