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We agreed with him in principal - we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Love
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Scientists
Scientist
Magic
Born
Robbed
Littles
Bred
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Agreed
Children
Dwell

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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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I'm never going to tell the reader what to believe I'm going to examine these characters that believe different ways, and examine their motives.
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a meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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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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