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For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Enterprise
Life
Threatening

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you can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece
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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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This Forest eats itself and lives forever.
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People ask without wanting to know.
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If it's important, your heart remembers.
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