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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Depended
Aware
Grew
People

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my own relationships with the animals in my life are absurdly complex: Some I love, some I eat, and the scraps left over from the ones I eat, I feed to the ones I love.
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it's the thing you fear most that walks beside you all the time.
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The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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The wrong words are impossible when there are no words.
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Silence has many advantages. When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations.
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It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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The gods you do not pay are the ones that can curse you best.
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If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
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Everything truly important is washable.
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A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn't do.
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Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.
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Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.
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Last time I talked to her she didn't sound like herself. She's depressed. It's awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they're no good.
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Come to think of it, just about every tool was shaped like either a weenie or a pistol, depending on your point of view.
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There's always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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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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