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The gods you do not pay are the ones that can curse you best.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Gods
Pay
Ones
Best
Curse

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As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer's long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn't touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn't stop.
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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.
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You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they're not self-sufficient.
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Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've only found sorrow.
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People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
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If you can't dress expensive, dress memorable.
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restraint equals indulgence
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Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
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The substance of grief is not imaginary. It's as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill.
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I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they're feeling because that's how I read the seed catalogs in January.
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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
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A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You examine every turn of flesh for precocity, and crow it to the world. But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after--oh, that' s love by a different name.
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Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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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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