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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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The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.
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My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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I can think of no honorable answer. Why must some of us deliberate between brands of toothpaste, while others deliberate between damp dirt and bone dust to quiet the fire of an empty stomach lining? There is nothing about the United States I can really explain to this child of another world.
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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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He had senile dementia and liked to go outside naked, but he could still do two things perfectly: win at checkers and write out prescriptions.
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A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You examine every turn of flesh for precocity, and crow it to the world. But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after--oh, that' s love by a different name.
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You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own.
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Loose lips sink ships.
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My way of finding a place in this world is to write one.
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Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've only found sorrow.
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From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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Last time I talked to her she didn't sound like herself. She's depressed. It's awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they're no good.
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I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
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Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back.
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The wrong words are impossible when there are no words.
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It's the same struggle for each of us, and the same path out: the utterly simple, infinitely wise, ultimately defiant act of loving one thing and then another, loving our way back to life.
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Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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I know how people are, with their habits of mind. Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean as snow...I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.
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Mother could go for one year without food, but not one day without her lip sticks.
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