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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
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Sweet
Dreams
Dream
Live
Life

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No matter what kind of night you're having, morning always wins.
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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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A breeze shook rain out of new leaves onto their hair, but in their pursuit of eternity they never noticed the chill.
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You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they're not self-sufficient.
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night.
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