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We came from Bethlehem, Georgia bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle. (Barbara Kingsolver)
The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away. View quote
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A human being can be good or bad or right or wrong, maybe. But how can you say a person is illegal? You just can't. That's all there is to it. View quote
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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. View quote
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For if there is any single thing that everyone hopes for most dearly, it must be this: that the youngest outlive the oldest. View quote
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How is it right to slip free of an old skin and walk away from the scene of the crime? We came, we saw, we took away and we left behind, we must be allowed our anguish and our regrets. View quote
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Poor Congo, barefoot bride of men who took her jewels and promised the Kingdom. View quote
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No other continent has endured such an unspeakably bizarre combination of foreign thievery and foreign goodwill. View quote
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A mother's body remembers her babies-the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has it's own entreaties to body and soul. View quote
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I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book. View quote
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Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them. (Barbara Kingsolver)
I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers. View quote
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I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science. View quote
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer. View quote
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After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth. View quote
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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life. View quote
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It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer. View quote
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Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people. View quote
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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger. View quote
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There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe. View quote
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Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent. (Barbara Kingsolver)
I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it. I can't imagine what kind of writer I'd be if I didn't have my kids. View quote
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God doesn't need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves. View quote
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I know how people are, with their habits of mind. Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean as snow...I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience. View quote
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What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive. View quote
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