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Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers will go to stupefying lengths to get the infernal roar of words out of their skulls and onto paper.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Length
Infernal
Fish
Lengths
Fishes
Roar
Bird
Skulls
Writers
Swim
Paper
Onto
Words
Gotta
Birds
Stupefying

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The arrogance of the able-bodied is staggering. Yes, maybe we'd like to be able to get places quickly, and carry things in both hands but only because we have to keep up with the rest of you ... We would rather be just like us, and have that be all 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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It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.
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But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is.
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Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
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My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my head is too full of words, and I just need to get to my desk and start dumping them into a file. I always wake with sentences pouring into my head.
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My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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No matter what kind of night you're having, morning always wins.
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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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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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Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next, are few enough to fit in a bucket, with room enough left to rattle like brittle brush in a dry wind.
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Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
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In the places that call me out, I know I'll recover my wordless childhood trust in the largeness of life and its willingness to take me in.
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The wrong words are impossible when there are no words.
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