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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
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Novelists
Edges
Grow
Memories
Grows
Always
Soften
Time
Essayists
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Knives

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the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
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Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and older authors tend to have more of it.
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I think that when people read fiction, they're really reading for wisdom. I am. That's what most of us really love. If we read a novel that rocks our world, it's because there's something in it that we didn't know already. Not just information but really wisdom - sort of what to do with our information. And wisdom comes from experience.
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