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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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Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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I think that when people read fiction, they're really reading for wisdom. I am. That's what most of us really love. If we read a novel that rocks our world, it's because there's something in it that we didn't know already. Not just information but really wisdom - sort of what to do with our information. And wisdom comes from experience.
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Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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...our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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Everything truly important is washable.
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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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My way of finding a place in this world is to write one.
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Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It's just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.
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A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You examine every turn of flesh for precocity, and crow it to the world. But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after--oh, that' s love by a different name.
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Hunger of the body is altogether different from the shallow, daily hunger of the belly. Those who have known this kind of hunger cannot entirely love, ever again, those who have not.
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I prefer to remain anomalous.
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In Kilanga, people knew nothing of things they might have had - a Frigidaire? a washer-dryer combination? Really, they'd sooner imagine a tree that could pull up its feet and go bake bread. It didn't occur to them to feel sorry for themselves.
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...nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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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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There's always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand fit.
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Loose lips sink ships.
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