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A dog can't think that much about what he's doing, he just does what feels right.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Dog
Doe
Right
Feels
Much
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Thinking

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you can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece
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I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
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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.
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Ah, the mysterious croak. Here today, gone tomorrow. It's the best reason I can think of to throw open the blinds and risk belief. Right now, this minute, time to move out into the grief and glory. High tide.
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...our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
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I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it. I can't imagine what kind of writer I'd be if I didn't have my kids.
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Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back.
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Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers will go to stupefying lengths to get the infernal roar of words out of their skulls and onto paper.
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God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.
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Hallie and I... were all there was. The image in the mirror that proves you are still here. We had exactly one sister apiece. We grew up knowing the simple arithmetic of scarcity: A sister is more precious than an eye.
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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
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What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
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Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least.
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