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My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand fit.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
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Silence has many advantages. When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations.
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Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.
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No matter what kind of night you're having, morning always wins.
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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
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My way of finding a place in this world is to write one.
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The longer you live, the more likely you are to have something to say.
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Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is.
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In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.
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