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If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
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Annapolis
Maryland
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The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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In the places that call me out, I know I'll recover my wordless childhood trust in the largeness of life and its willingness to take me in.
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How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.
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If someone does learn about the world from reading a novel of mine, that makes me very happy. It's probably not what brings me into the novel in the first place - I usually am pulled in by some big question about the world and human nature that I'm not going to resolve in the course of the novel. But I'm very devoted to getting my facts straight.
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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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If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
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The wrong words are impossible when there are no words.
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