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A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Magic
Dissonance
Wonder
Grit
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Cognitive
Littles
Jumping
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Title
Book
Titles
Good
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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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Silence has many advantages. When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations.
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I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they're feeling because that's how I read the seed catalogs in January.
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Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you figure out what you have to say.
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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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A dog can't think that much about what he's doing, he just does what feels right.
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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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If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
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High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
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I write every moment that is humanly possible. I write every day and every night. The only discipline I lack is the discipline is to quit.
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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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