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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.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Life
Doorway
Doorways
Supposed
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It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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No matter what kind of night you're having, morning always wins.
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This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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I struggle with confidence, every time. I’m never completely sure I can write another book. Maybe my scope is too grand, my questions too hard, surely readers won’t want to follow me here. A novel is like a cathedral, it knocks you down to size when you enter into it.
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There is something in us that loves certain disasters and the fever of this moment and surrendering to that.
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