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Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Smoking
Improve
Speed
Limits
Posted
Wise
Observe
Getting
Odds
Enough
Quit
Quitting

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Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man's skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people's back yards.
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This Forest eats itself and lives forever.
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It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
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If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.
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I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night.
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This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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