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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
Thinking
Dog
Doe
Right
Feels
Much
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If I had to give up my life for anything, it would have to have the resilience of hope, the elation of new literacy, the brilliant life of a field of flowers, the elementary kindness of bread. Nothing short of that. It would have to be something as sure as love.
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I prefer to remain anomalous.
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This Forest eats itself and lives forever.
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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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I struggle with confidence, every time. I’m never completely sure I can write another book. Maybe my scope is too grand, my questions too hard, surely readers won’t want to follow me here. A novel is like a cathedral, it knocks you down to size when you enter into it.
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it's the thing you fear most that walks beside you all the time.
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Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms.
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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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Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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I know how people are, with their habits of mind. Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean as snow...I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.
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No matter what kind of night you're having, morning always wins.
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We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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Perhaps growing up meant we put our knives away and feigned ignorance of the damage.
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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market.
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A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience, but remember, the forest eats itself and lives forever.
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The writing has been on the wall for some years now, but we are a nation illiterate in the language of the wall. The writing just gets bigger. Something will eventually bring down the charming, infuriating naïveté of Americans that allows us our blithe consumption and cheerful ignorance of the secret ugliness that bring us whatever we want.
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Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin.
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