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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
Dream
Soul
Rabbits
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the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
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My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past
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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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The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.
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If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.
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People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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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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Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms.
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When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine. Pigs in Heaven
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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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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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...whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. And peace will be with you.
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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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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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