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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.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Heartache
Works
Doesn
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Children

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What we end up calling history is a kind of knife, slicing down through time. A few people are hard enough to bend its edge. But most won't even stand close to the blade. I'm one of those. We don't bend anything.
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it takes your sleeping self years to catch up to where you really are. ... when you go on a trip, in your dreams you will still be home. Then after you've come home you'll dream of where you were. It's a kind of jet lag of the consciousness.
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The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
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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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I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night.
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I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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Like Daniel she enteres the lions' den, but lacking Daniel's pure and unblemished soul, Ada is spiced with the flavors of vice that make for a tasty meal. Pure and unblemished souls must taste very bland, with an aftertaste of bitterness.
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Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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Arterial-plaque specials that save minutes now can cost years, later on.
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As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer's long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn't touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn't stop.
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Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what's not in it.
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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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For scientists, reality is not optional.
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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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you can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece
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I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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I have my own sheep and I literally sheer the sheep and knot sweaters for friends and family from scratch.
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