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If you ask me, when something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make it the best home you can.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
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Annapolis
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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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If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
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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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I prefer to remain anomalous.
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The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience, but remember, the forest eats itself and lives forever.
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It is completely usual for me to get up in the morning, take a look around, and laugh out loud.
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The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.
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Arterial-plaque specials that save minutes now can cost years, later on.
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The wrong words are impossible when there are no words.
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Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand fit.
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A flower is a plant's way of making love.
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Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've only found sorrow.
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Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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If it's important, your heart remembers.
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To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!
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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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