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Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you figure out what you have to say.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
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The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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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'm never going to tell the reader what to believe I'm going to examine these characters that believe different ways, and examine their motives.
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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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Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
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The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.
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He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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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.
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Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It's the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.
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it's the thing you fear most that walks beside you all the time.
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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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you can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece
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We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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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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High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
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Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.
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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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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is.
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my own relationships with the animals in my life are absurdly complex: Some I love, some I eat, and the scraps left over from the ones I eat, I feed to the ones I love.
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