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Barbara Kingsolver

"If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread."

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"If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread."

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"There is no poetry or song. There is no short or long.There is only you."

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"Music gives strength to the spirit."

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"Be an artist in everything you do."

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"Let us play the flute of love to spread the music of peace, joy and happiness."

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"She lives in the poetry she cannot write."

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"Art is the reflection of an imaginative mind."

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"This is almost always the case: A piece of art receives its f(r)ame when found offensive."

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"The truth needs so little rehearsal."
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"It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time."
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"Don't try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you're good, bad things can still happen. And if you're bad, you can still be lucky."
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"To live is to change, to die one hundred deaths."
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"People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own."
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"I never learn anything from listening to myself."
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"This will be Great Mam's last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden."
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"This manuscript of yours that has just come back from another editor is a precious package. Don't consider it rejected. Consider that you've addressed it 'to the editor who can appreciate my work' and it has simply come back stamped 'Not at this address'. Just keep looking for the right address."
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"Like many human beings, he took the least sign of conversation as his cue to make noise."
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"But if we can't summon the empathy to imagine what our dead would have asked of us, or the selflessness to give it, then we must accept the desperately sad verdict that each generation's hopes will die with it, and no cumulative progress is possible for the human will."
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