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I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Write
Keep
Night
Writing
Things
Awake

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It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.
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The gods you do not pay are the ones that can curse you best.
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A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn't do.
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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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The writing has been on the wall for some years now, but we are a nation illiterate in the language of the wall. The writing just gets bigger. Something will eventually bring down the charming, infuriating naïveté of Americans that allows us our blithe consumption and cheerful ignorance of the secret ugliness that bring us whatever we want.
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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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