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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
Momentous
Shoulders
Kindness
Unless
Comes
Nothing
World

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a meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth.
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It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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He was getting that look he gets, oh boy, like Here comes Moses tromping down off of Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck your life.
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There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.
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From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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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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restraint equals indulgence
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It's terrible to lose somebody, but it's also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that's got to be so much worse.
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Oh, that river of wishes, the slippery crocodile dream of it, how it might have carried my body down through all the glittering sand bars to the sea.
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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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My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand fit.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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I'm never going to tell the reader what to believe I'm going to examine these characters that believe different ways, and examine their motives.
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