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When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Hard
Balloons
Poke
Superiority
Fill
Hot
Billowing
Air
Combines
Ignorance
Balloon
Moral
Awfully

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