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Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Money
Regardless
Human
Greed
Humans
Conviction
Right
Global
Profit
Driven
Inalienable
Cost
Commerce
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I think that when people read fiction, they're really reading for wisdom. I am. That's what most of us really love. If we read a novel that rocks our world, it's because there's something in it that we didn't know already. Not just information but really wisdom - sort of what to do with our information. And wisdom comes from experience.
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Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.
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Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've only found sorrow.
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Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
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Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life.
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The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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It's the same struggle for each of us, and the same path out: the utterly simple, infinitely wise, ultimately defiant act of loving one thing and then another, loving our way back to life.
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We're surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
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Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.
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My way of finding a place in this world is to write one.
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a meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth.
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From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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