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It's what you do that makes your soul.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Rabbits
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Soul

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Oh, that river of wishes, the slippery crocodile dream of it, how it might have carried my body down through all the glittering sand bars to the sea.
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Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.
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The writing has been on the wall for some years now, but we are a nation illiterate in the language of the wall. The writing just gets bigger. Something will eventually bring down the charming, infuriating naïveté of Americans that allows us our blithe consumption and cheerful ignorance of the secret ugliness that bring us whatever we want.
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Independence is a complex word in a foreign tongue. To resist occupation, whether you're a nation or merely a woman, you must understand the language of your enemy. Conquest and liberation and democrac and divorce are words that mean squat, basically, when you have hungry children and clothes to get out on the line and it looks like rain.
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This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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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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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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There is something in us that loves certain disasters and the fever of this moment and surrendering to that.
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God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.
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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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People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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restraint equals indulgence
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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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I've never gotten over high school, to the extent that I'm still a little surprised that my friends want to hang out with me.
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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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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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Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see, be, or believe. It's more like conversation, raising new questions and inspiring you to answer them for yourself.
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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.
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The reason most people have kids is because they get pregnant.
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