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Memories do not always soften with time some grow edges like knives.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
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Annapolis
Maryland
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Knives
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Memories
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Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers will go to stupefying lengths to get the infernal roar of words out of their skulls and onto paper.
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High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
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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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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Arterial-plaque specials that save minutes now can cost years, later on.
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But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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organization is the religion of the single parent.
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School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.
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Perhaps growing up meant we put our knives away and feigned ignorance of the damage.
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The arrogance of the able-bodied is staggering. Yes, maybe we'd like to be able to get places quickly, and carry things in both hands but only because we have to keep up with the rest of you ... We would rather be just like us, and have that be all right.
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Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
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Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It's the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.
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Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is.
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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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Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life.
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Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't but we wear it all the same
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Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you're contagious.
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