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It's the same struggle for each of us, and the same path out: the utterly simple, infinitely wise, ultimately defiant act of loving one thing and then another, loving our way back to life.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Path
Simple
Defiant
Another
Infinitely
Back
Utterly
Thing
Ultimately
Way
Loving
Love
Struggle
Life
Wise

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it takes your sleeping self years to catch up to where you really are. ... when you go on a trip, in your dreams you will still be home. Then after you've come home you'll dream of where you were. It's a kind of jet lag of the consciousness.
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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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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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Like Daniel she enteres the lions' den, but lacking Daniel's pure and unblemished soul, Ada is spiced with the flavors of vice that make for a tasty meal. Pure and unblemished souls must taste very bland, with an aftertaste of bitterness.
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No matter what kind of night you're having, morning always wins.
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To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!
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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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Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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There's always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It's peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
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But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.
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A flower is a plant's way of making love.
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I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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If you can't dress expensive, dress memorable.
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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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Beginning a novel is always hard. It feels like going nowhere. I always have to write at least 100 pages that go into the trashcan before it finally begins to work. It's discouraging, but necessary to write those pages. I try to consider them pages -100 to zero of the novel.
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The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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...nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
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Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you're contagious.
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Morality is not a large, constructed *thing* you have or have not, but simply a capacity. Something you carry with you in your brain and in your hands.
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