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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
Life
Believing
Luck
Deserve
Spend
Ones
Thought
Enrages
Without
Untouched
Believe
Proceeds

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I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.
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I write every moment that is humanly possible. I write every day and every night. The only discipline I lack is the discipline is to quit.
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If it's important, your heart remembers.
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Ah, the mysterious croak. Here today, gone tomorrow. It's the best reason I can think of to throw open the blinds and risk belief. Right now, this minute, time to move out into the grief and glory. High tide.
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Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
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My way of finding a place in this world is to write one.
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I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
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