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I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Snow
Price
Notion
Conscience
White
People
Earthly

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it's the thing you fear most that walks beside you all the time.
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Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
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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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Children can be your heartache. But that doesn't matter, you have to go on and have them . . . it works out.
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Hunger of the body is altogether different from the shallow, daily hunger of the belly. Those who have known this kind of hunger cannot entirely love, ever again, those who have not.
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