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If you ask me, when something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make it the best home you can.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
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If you're standing in the manure pile, it's somebody's job to mention the stink.
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People ask without wanting to know.
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A flower is your cousin...Sometimes a person has got to take a life, like a chicken's or a hog's when you need it...But nobody is so hungry they need to kill a flower. Cherokee great-grandmother
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there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I'm concerned that's like accusing a dog of having a bark!
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