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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
Dreams
Dream
Live
Life
Sweet

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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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There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.
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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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Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and older authors tend to have more of it.
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I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
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Memories do not always soften with time some grow edges like knives.
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I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
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... Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, 'so far from everything?' When I hear this question over the phone, I'm usually looking out the window at a forest, a running creek, and a vegetable garden, thinking: Define everything.
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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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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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It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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I write every moment that is humanly possible. I write every day and every night. The only discipline I lack is the discipline is to quit.
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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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Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Come to think of it, just about every tool was shaped like either a weenie or a pistol, depending on your point of view.
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It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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It's terrible to lose somebody, but it's also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that's got to be so much worse.
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You force people to stop asking questions, and before you know it they have auctioned off the question mark, or sold it for scrap. No boldness. No good ideas for fixing what's broken in the land. Because if you happen to mention it's broken, you are automatically disqualified.
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