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I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
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A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
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When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine. Pigs in Heaven
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The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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Sometimes I prayed for Baby Jesus to make me good, but Baby Jesus didn't.
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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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