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Everything truly important is washable.

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Housework
Truly
Everything
Important

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It's very important to distinguish between innocence and naivete. The innocent do not deserve to be the victims of violence. But only the naive refuse to think about the origins of violence and to pursue the possibility that the genesis of that hatred could be addressed.
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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Memory runs along deep, fixed channels in the brain, like electricity along its conduits only a cataclysm can make the electrons rear up in shock and slide over into another channel. The human mind seems doomed to believe, as simply as a rooster believes, that where we are now is the only possibility
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The wrong words are impossible when there are no words.
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There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.
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The arrogance of the able-bodied is staggering. Yes, maybe we'd like to be able to get places quickly, and carry things in both hands but only because we have to keep up with the rest of you ... We would rather be just like us, and have that be all right.
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It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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Bitter words normally evaporate with the moisture of breath, after a quarrel. In order to become permanent, they require transcribers, reporters, complicit black hearts.
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If you're standing in the manure pile, it's somebody's job to mention the stink.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past
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Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is.
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It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they're afraid to plant themselves?
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You know reviewers, they are the wind in their own sails.
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Sometimes I prayed for Baby Jesus to make me good, but Baby Jesus didn't.
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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.
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In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune.
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