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Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Mind
Mercy
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Bible
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James
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Uncertain
Wrong
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The arrogance of the able-bodied is staggering. Yes, maybe we'd like to be able to get places quickly, and carry things in both hands but only because we have to keep up with the rest of you ... We would rather be just like us, and have that be all right.
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Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
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there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I'm concerned that's like accusing a dog of having a bark!
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it's the thing you fear most that walks beside you all the time.
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Oh, that river of wishes, the slippery crocodile dream of it, how it might have carried my body down through all the glittering sand bars to the sea.
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Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It's peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
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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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Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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My way of finding a place in this world is to write one.
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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it takes your sleeping self years to catch up to where you really are. ... when you go on a trip, in your dreams you will still be home. Then after you've come home you'll dream of where you were. It's a kind of jet lag of the consciousness.
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We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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It's what you do that makes your soul.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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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.
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