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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
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Annapolis
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I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.
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My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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Everything truly important is washable.
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Loose lips sink ships.
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Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man's skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people's back yards.
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Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next, are few enough to fit in a bucket, with room enough left to rattle like brittle brush in a dry wind.
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Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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They all attended Hester's church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.
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The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.
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Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
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...nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
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You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own.
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Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.
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...whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. And peace will be with you.
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Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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you can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece
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It's what you do that makes your soul.
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