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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
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Soul
Needs
Life

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Americans who read and think are patriots of the first order. The kind who know enough to roll their eyes whenever anyone tries to claim sole custody of the flag and weild it as a blunt instrument. There are as many ways to love America as there are Americans, and our country needs us all.
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There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but you haven't told anyone yet.
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Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.
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A dog can't think that much about what he's doing, he just does what feels right.
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If it's important, your heart remembers.
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Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
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Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past
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I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what's not in it.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.
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Perhaps growing up meant we put our knives away and feigned ignorance of the damage.
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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 know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
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Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.
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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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This Forest eats itself and lives forever.
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I think that when people read fiction, they're really reading for wisdom. I am. That's what most of us really love. If we read a novel that rocks our world, it's because there's something in it that we didn't know already. Not just information but really wisdom - sort of what to do with our information. And wisdom comes from experience.
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