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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
Morning
Comes
Always

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He was getting that look he gets, oh boy, like Here comes Moses tromping down off of Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck your life.
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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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I don't look like who I am.
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I write every moment that is humanly possible. I write every day and every night. The only discipline I lack is the discipline is to quit.
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I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
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I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.
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I have my own sheep and I literally sheer the sheep and knot sweaters for friends and family from scratch.
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Most of the girls my age, or even younger, have babies. They appear way too young to be married, till you look in their eyes. Then you'll see it. Their eyes look happy and sad at the same time, but unexcited by anything, shifting easily off to the side as if they've already seen most of what there is. Married eyes.
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No matter what kind of night you're having, morning always wins.
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Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.
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Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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My way of finding a place in this world is to write one.
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Like Daniel she enteres the lions' den, but lacking Daniel's pure and unblemished soul, Ada is spiced with the flavors of vice that make for a tasty meal. Pure and unblemished souls must taste very bland, with an aftertaste of bitterness.
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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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I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other.
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