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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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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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If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
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People ask without wanting to know.
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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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A dog can't think that much about what he's doing, he just does what feels right.
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People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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...our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.
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A breeze shook rain out of new leaves onto their hair, but in their pursuit of eternity they never noticed the chill.
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The substance of grief is not imaginary. It's as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill.
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Memories do not always soften with time some grow edges like knives.
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organization is the religion of the single parent.
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One of the very first things I figured out about life...is that it's better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you're hopeful, you have more fun.
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You know reviewers, they are the wind in their own sails.
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Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.
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You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don't attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.
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The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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This Forest eats itself and lives forever.
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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
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You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own.
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