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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
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My way of finding a place in this world is to write one.
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Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
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I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.
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There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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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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