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He needs to go rub his soul against life.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
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Annapolis
Maryland
Soul
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Life
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He was getting that look he gets, oh boy, like Here comes Moses tromping down off of Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck your life.
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it's the thing you fear most that walks beside you all the time.
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Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It's peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
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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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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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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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People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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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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How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
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I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
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I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.
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Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven.
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If it's important, your heart remembers.
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Oh, that river of wishes, the slippery crocodile dream of it, how it might have carried my body down through all the glittering sand bars to the sea.
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Come to think of it, just about every tool was shaped like either a weenie or a pistol, depending on your point of view.
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I believe with all my heart in delivering on my contract with my readers. They've got plenty of other things to do, so I had better give them a reason to turn every one of these 550 pages. This is my promise: I solemnly swear I'll make you laugh out loud at least once, cry a little in private, and burn whatever you left on the stove.
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I've about decided that's the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you're a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.
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The writing has been on the wall for some years now, but we are a nation illiterate in the language of the wall. The writing just gets bigger. Something will eventually bring down the charming, infuriating naïveté of Americans that allows us our blithe consumption and cheerful ignorance of the secret ugliness that bring us whatever we want.
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