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You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they're not self-sufficient.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
People
Resenting
Sufficient
Admire
Instead
Crazy
Self
Even
Love

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it takes your sleeping self years to catch up to where you really are. ... when you go on a trip, in your dreams you will still be home. Then after you've come home you'll dream of where you were. It's a kind of jet lag of the consciousness.
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A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn't do.
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...whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. And peace will be with you.
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the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
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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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Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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restraint equals indulgence
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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.
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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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I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.
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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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Last time I talked to her she didn't sound like herself. She's depressed. It's awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they're no good.
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What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.
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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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Everything truly important is washable.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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It is completely usual for me to get up in the morning, take a look around, and laugh out loud.
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Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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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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