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If it's important, your heart remembers.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Remembers
Remember
Important
Heart

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If you're standing in the manure pile, it's somebody's job to mention the stink.
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Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.
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You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
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There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.
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I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.
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I don't look like who I am.
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Morning always comes.
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Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
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Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms.
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It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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...nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
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You know reviewers, they are the wind in their own sails.
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Memories do not always soften with time some grow edges like knives.
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If you can't dress expensive, dress memorable.
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a meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth.
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My way of finding a place in this world is to write one.
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As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer's long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn't touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn't stop.
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You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own.
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When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine. Pigs in Heaven
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Hallie and I... were all there was. The image in the mirror that proves you are still here. We had exactly one sister apiece. We grew up knowing the simple arithmetic of scarcity: A sister is more precious than an eye.
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