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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
Comes
Always
Morning

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Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.
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restraint equals indulgence
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Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It's peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
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It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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Do you think its possible to live without wanting to put your name on your paintings? To belong to a group so securely you don't need to rise above it?
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I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
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Arterial-plaque specials that save minutes now can cost years, later on.
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Silence has many advantages. When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations.
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I concentrate on character, theme, language, structure, voice. It actually surprises me that no matter what I write, people declare it intently political. I'm just writing about the world I know, as it is. Wounds and griefs included.
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my own relationships with the animals in my life are absurdly complex: Some I love, some I eat, and the scraps left over from the ones I eat, I feed to the ones I love.
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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.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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Memories do not always soften with time some grow edges like knives.
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But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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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.
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I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.
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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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Bitter words normally evaporate with the moisture of breath, after a quarrel. In order to become permanent, they require transcribers, reporters, complicit black hearts.
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Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It's the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.
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