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It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Else
Another
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Always
Life
Wherever
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it's the thing you fear most that walks beside you all the time.
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Sometimes I prayed for Baby Jesus to make me good, but Baby Jesus didn't.
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A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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If someone does learn about the world from reading a novel of mine, that makes me very happy. It's probably not what brings me into the novel in the first place - I usually am pulled in by some big question about the world and human nature that I'm not going to resolve in the course of the novel. But I'm very devoted to getting my facts straight.
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Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.
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The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
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