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We're surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
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Annapolis
Maryland
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The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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The march of human progress seemed mainly a matter of getting over that initial shock of being here.
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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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Everything truly important is washable.
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Memories do not always soften with time some grow edges like knives.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.
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Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.
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We agreed with him in principal - we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they're not self-sufficient.
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I struggle with confidence, every time. I’m never completely sure I can write another book. Maybe my scope is too grand, my questions too hard, surely readers won’t want to follow me here. A novel is like a cathedral, it knocks you down to size when you enter into it.
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I don't look like who I am.
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it takes your sleeping self years to catch up to where you really are. ... when you go on a trip, in your dreams you will still be home. Then after you've come home you'll dream of where you were. It's a kind of jet lag of the consciousness.
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It's the same struggle for each of us, and the same path out: the utterly simple, infinitely wise, ultimately defiant act of loving one thing and then another, loving our way back to life.
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If you ask me, when something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make it the best home you can.
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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 don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
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