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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
Way
Love
Plant
Flower
Making

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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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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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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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Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
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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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Beginning a novel is always hard. It feels like going nowhere. I always have to write at least 100 pages that go into the trashcan before it finally begins to work. It's discouraging, but necessary to write those pages. I try to consider them pages -100 to zero of the novel.
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Silence has many advantages. When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations.
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A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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Tomorrow these villagers would carry their secret icons into the church without any priest and light the candles themselves, moving together in single-minded grace. Like the school of the fish, so driven to righteousness they could flout the law, declare the safety of their souls, then go home and destroy the evidence.
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Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man's skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people's back yards.
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Children can be your heartache. But that doesn't matter, you have to go on and have them . . . it works out.
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This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market.
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I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they're feeling because that's how I read the seed catalogs in January.
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High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
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it's the thing you fear most that walks beside you all the time.
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Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin.
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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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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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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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I've about decided that's the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you're a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.
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