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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.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Life
Hope
Bread
Give
Brilliant
Anything
Field
Nothing
Kindness
Elation
Giving
Flower
Elementary
Something
Fields
Resilience
Would
Short
Literacy
Love
Sure
Flowers

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