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A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
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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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a meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth.
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When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.
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Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
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Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they're afraid to plant themselves?
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The wrong words are impossible when there are no words.
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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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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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There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.
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Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.
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