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It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
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Annapolis
Maryland
Mindfulness
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Children can be your heartache. But that doesn't matter, you have to go on and have them . . . it works out.
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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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This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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Memories do not always soften with time some grow edges like knives.
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A flower is your cousin...Sometimes a person has got to take a life, like a chicken's or a hog's when you need it...But nobody is so hungry they need to kill a flower. Cherokee great-grandmother
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A flower is a plant's way of making love.
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Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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