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...nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Unless
Comes
Nothing
World
Momentous
Shoulders
Kindness

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He warned Mother not to flout God's Will by expecting too much of us. Sending a girl to college is like pouring water in your shoes,' he still loves to say, as often as possible. 'It's hard to say which is worse, seeing it run out and waste the water, or seeing it hold in and wreck the shoes.
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People ask without wanting to know.
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No matter what kind of night you're having, morning always wins.
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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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Sometimes I prayed for Baby Jesus to make me good, but Baby Jesus didn't.
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It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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Loose lips sink ships.
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Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is.
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The march of human progress seemed mainly a matter of getting over that initial shock of being here.
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There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.
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Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what's not in it.
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What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.
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How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
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Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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it takes your sleeping self years to catch up to where you really are. ... when you go on a trip, in your dreams you will still be home. Then after you've come home you'll dream of where you were. It's a kind of jet lag of the consciousness.
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There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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Most of the girls my age, or even younger, have babies. They appear way too young to be married, till you look in their eyes. Then you'll see it. Their eyes look happy and sad at the same time, but unexcited by anything, shifting easily off to the side as if they've already seen most of what there is. Married eyes.
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He had senile dementia and liked to go outside naked, but he could still do two things perfectly: win at checkers and write out prescriptions.
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...our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.
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