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Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Deserve
Spend
Ones
Thought
Enrages
Without
Untouched
Believe
Proceeds
Life
Believing
Luck

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High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
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