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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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You don't think you'll live past it and you don't really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that's still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.
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Hunger of the body is altogether different from the shallow, daily hunger of the belly. Those who have known this kind of hunger cannot entirely love, ever again, those who have not.
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When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.
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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
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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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there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I'm concerned that's like accusing a dog of having a bark!
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a meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth.
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He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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restraint equals indulgence
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Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back.
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