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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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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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