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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Mother
Mom
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Guess
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Quicker
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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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How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.
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People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
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