“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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Barbara Kingsolver is an American novelist, essayist and poet.
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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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“Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a...”
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“Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.”
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“It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.”
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