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A flower is a plant's way of making love.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Flower
Making
Way
Love
Plant

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No matter what kind of night you're having, morning always wins.
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When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.
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My way of finding a place in this world is to write one.
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I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.
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Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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Memories do not always soften with time some grow edges like knives.
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What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.
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Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see, be, or believe. It's more like conversation, raising new questions and inspiring you to answer them for yourself.
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a meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth.
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You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
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I believe with all my heart in delivering on my contract with my readers. They've got plenty of other things to do, so I had better give them a reason to turn every one of these 550 pages. This is my promise: I solemnly swear I'll make you laugh out loud at least once, cry a little in private, and burn whatever you left on the stove.
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The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.
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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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I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
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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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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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