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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
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Annapolis
Maryland
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The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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I write every moment that is humanly possible. I write every day and every night. The only discipline I lack is the discipline is to quit.
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God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.
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Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms.
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