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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
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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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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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If you can't dress expensive, dress memorable.
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There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but you haven't told anyone yet.
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But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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I concentrate on character, theme, language, structure, voice. It actually surprises me that no matter what I write, people declare it intently political. I'm just writing about the world I know, as it is. Wounds and griefs included.
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God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.
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No matter what kind of night you're having, morning always wins.
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organization is the religion of the single parent.
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There's always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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It is completely usual for me to get up in the morning, take a look around, and laugh out loud.
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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
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There is something in us that loves certain disasters and the fever of this moment and surrendering to that.
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It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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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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Morning always comes.
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I've never gotten over high school, to the extent that I'm still a little surprised that my friends want to hang out with me.
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Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you're contagious.
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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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