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The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Balance
Power
Much
Injuries
Successes
Injury

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The writing has been on the wall for some years now, but we are a nation illiterate in the language of the wall. The writing just gets bigger. Something will eventually bring down the charming, infuriating naïveté of Americans that allows us our blithe consumption and cheerful ignorance of the secret ugliness that bring us whatever we want.
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Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you figure out what you have to say.
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He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.
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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.
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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.
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