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People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
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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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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth but not its twin.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work—that goes on, it adds up.
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Poor Africa. No other continent has endured such an unspeakably bizarre combination of foreign thievery and foreign goodwill.
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I've about decided that's the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you're a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.
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Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they're afraid to plant themselves?
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Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It's peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
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I wonder that religion can live or die on the strength of a faint, stirring breeze. The scent trail shifts, causing the predator to miss the pounce. One god draws in the breath of life and rises; another god expires.
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The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
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We tap our toes to chaste love songs about the silvery moon without recognizing them as hymns to copulation.
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But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.
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Listen: being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different, though. You could say the view is larger.
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They were completely quiet, but toward the end of the day you really can't tell what that means. It could be awe or brain death, the symptoms are identical.
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Most of the girls my age, or even younger, have babies. They appear way too young to be married, till you look in their eyes. Then you'll see it. Their eyes look happy and sad at the same time, but unexcited by anything, shifting easily off to the side as if they've already seen most of what there is. Married eyes.
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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.
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He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.
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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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What school is about; two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.
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We came from Bethlehem, Georgia bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle.
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We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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If I had to give up my life for anything, it would have to have the resilience of hope, the elation of new literacy, the brilliant life of a field of flowers, the elementary kindness of bread. Nothing short of that. It would have to be something as sure as love.
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Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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What we end up calling history is a kind of knife, slicing down through time. A few people are hard enough to bend its edge. But most won't even stand close to the blade. I'm one of those. We don't bend anything.
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Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.
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Barbara Kingsolver
Born:
April 8, 1955
(age 65)
Bio:
Barbara Kingsolver is an American novelist, essayist and poet. She was raised in rural Kentucky and lived briefly in the Congo in her early childhood.
Known for:
The Poisonwood Bible (1998)
Flight Behavior (2012)
The Bean Trees (1988)
The Lacuna (2009)
Prodigal Summer: A Novel (2000)
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