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it's the thing you fear most that walks beside you all the time.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
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Annapolis
Maryland
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He was getting that look he gets, oh boy, like Here comes Moses tromping down off of Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck your life.
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Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
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Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least.
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The march of human progress seemed mainly a matter of getting over that initial shock of being here.
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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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If I had to give up my life for anything, it would have to have the resilience of hope, the elation of new literacy, the brilliant life of a field of flowers, the elementary kindness of bread. Nothing short of that. It would have to be something as sure as love.
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Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
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I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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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 kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
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