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I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Comprehension
Ridiculous
Beyond
Thought
Life

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Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you figure out what you have to say.
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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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(on asparagus) Europeans of the Renaissance swore by it as an aphrodisiac, and the church banned it from nunneries.
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In the places that call me out, I know I'll recover my wordless childhood trust in the largeness of life and its willingness to take me in.
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