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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
Think
Thinking

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Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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The gods you do not pay are the ones that can curse you best.
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Memory runs along deep, fixed channels in the brain, like electricity along its conduits only a cataclysm can make the electrons rear up in shock and slide over into another channel. The human mind seems doomed to believe, as simply as a rooster believes, that where we are now is the only possibility
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If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
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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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Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
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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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You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don't attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.
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In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune.
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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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there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I'm concerned that's like accusing a dog of having a bark!
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It's what you do that makes your soul.
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Loose lips sink ships.
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restraint equals indulgence
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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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It is completely usual for me to get up in the morning, take a look around, and laugh out loud.
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It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.
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I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night.
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Tomorrow these villagers would carry their secret icons into the church without any priest and light the candles themselves, moving together in single-minded grace. Like the school of the fish, so driven to righteousness they could flout the law, declare the safety of their souls, then go home and destroy the evidence.
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