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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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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
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Annapolis
Maryland
Came
Fortune
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People ask without wanting to know.
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You don't think you'll live past it and you don't really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that's still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.
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restraint equals indulgence
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The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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organization is the religion of the single parent.
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It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms.
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Morning always comes.
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There are some who'd hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think's been too lucky.
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We're surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
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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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My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.
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A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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The death of something living is the price of our own survival, and we pay it again and again. We have no choice. It is the one solemn promise every life on earth is born and bound to keep.
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What we end up calling history is a kind of knife, slicing down through time. A few people are hard enough to bend its edge. But most won't even stand close to the blade. I'm one of those. We don't bend anything.
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