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Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
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Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven.
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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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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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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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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
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Mother could go for one year without food, but not one day without her lip sticks.
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The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
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The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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It's very important to distinguish between innocence and naivete. The innocent do not deserve to be the victims of violence. But only the naive refuse to think about the origins of violence and to pursue the possibility that the genesis of that hatred could be addressed.
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Perhaps growing up meant we put our knives away and feigned ignorance of the damage.
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If it's important, your heart remembers.
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Root out all the to be verbs in your prose and bludgeon them until dead. No It was or they are or I am. Don't let it be, make it happen.
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a meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth.
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Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.
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Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life.
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It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
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