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

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Offer
Offers
Best
Work
Think
Thinking

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Children can be your heartache. But that doesn't matter, you have to go on and have them . . . it works out.
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You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own.
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
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(on asparagus) Europeans of the Renaissance swore by it as an aphrodisiac, and the church banned it from nunneries.
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Nine-tenths of human law is about possession.
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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
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I struggle with confidence, every time. I’m never completely sure I can write another book. Maybe my scope is too grand, my questions too hard, surely readers won’t want to follow me here. A novel is like a cathedral, it knocks you down to size when you enter into it.
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No matter what kind of night you're having, morning always wins.
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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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The death of something living is the price of our own survival, and we pay it again and again. We have no choice. It is the one solemn promise every life on earth is born and bound to keep.
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What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.
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Everything truly important is washable.
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If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.
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Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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He warned Mother not to flout God's Will by expecting too much of us. Sending a girl to college is like pouring water in your shoes,' he still loves to say, as often as possible. 'It's hard to say which is worse, seeing it run out and waste the water, or seeing it hold in and wreck the shoes.
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How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
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Morning always comes.
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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.
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I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
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My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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