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Everything truly important is washable.

Barbara Kingsolver

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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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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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The writing has been on the wall for some years now, but we are a nation illiterate in the language of the wall. The writing just gets bigger. Something will eventually bring down the charming, infuriating naïveté of Americans that allows us our blithe consumption and cheerful ignorance of the secret ugliness that bring us whatever we want.
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A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You examine every turn of flesh for precocity, and crow it to the world. But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after--oh, that' s love by a different name.
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You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
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I don't look like who I am.
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The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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There are some who'd hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think's been too lucky.
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organization is the religion of the single parent.
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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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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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the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
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Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
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Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man's skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people's back yards.
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God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.
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I believe with all my heart in delivering on my contract with my readers. They've got plenty of other things to do, so I had better give them a reason to turn every one of these 550 pages. This is my promise: I solemnly swear I'll make you laugh out loud at least once, cry a little in private, and burn whatever you left on the stove.
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A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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Morning always comes.
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What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
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Memories do not always soften with time some grow edges like knives.
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