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Morning always comes.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Always
Morning
Comes

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Americans who read and think are patriots of the first order. The kind who know enough to roll their eyes whenever anyone tries to claim sole custody of the flag and weild it as a blunt instrument. There are as many ways to love America as there are Americans, and our country needs us all.
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I'm never going to tell the reader what to believe I'm going to examine these characters that believe different ways, and examine their motives.
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Loose lips sink ships.
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I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.
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Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least.
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Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
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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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From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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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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A woman without a man -- a condition of 'manlessness' -- is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife.
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Root out all the to be verbs in your prose and bludgeon them until dead. No It was or they are or I am. Don't let it be, make it happen.
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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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But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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If you ask me, when something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make it the best home you can.
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...our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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Come to think of it, just about every tool was shaped like either a weenie or a pistol, depending on your point of view.
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Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
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a meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth.
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If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.
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There's always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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