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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
Life
Wise
Path
Simple
Defiant
Another
Infinitely
Back
Utterly
Thing
Ultimately
Way
Loving
Love
Struggle

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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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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
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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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If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.
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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
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He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.
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... Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, 'so far from everything?' When I hear this question over the phone, I'm usually looking out the window at a forest, a running creek, and a vegetable garden, thinking: Define everything.
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There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.
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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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Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
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Many of us who aren't farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.
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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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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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Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
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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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