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Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
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Annapolis
Maryland
Resemblances
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A flower is your cousin...Sometimes a person has got to take a life, like a chicken's or a hog's when you need it...But nobody is so hungry they need to kill a flower. Cherokee great-grandmother
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But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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No matter what kind of night you're having, morning always wins.
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I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It's peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
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Like Daniel she enteres the lions' den, but lacking Daniel's pure and unblemished soul, Ada is spiced with the flavors of vice that make for a tasty meal. Pure and unblemished souls must taste very bland, with an aftertaste of bitterness.
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(on asparagus) Europeans of the Renaissance swore by it as an aphrodisiac, and the church banned it from nunneries.
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You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don't attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.
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...nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
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I don't look like who I am.
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For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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I know how people are, with their habits of mind. Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean as snow...I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.
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It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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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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Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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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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Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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