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Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
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I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.
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I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer's block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don't. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.
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Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life.
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The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.
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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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My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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One of the very first things I figured out about life...is that it's better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you're hopeful, you have more fun.
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There is something in us that loves certain disasters and the fever of this moment and surrendering to that.
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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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The wrong words are impossible when there are no words.
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