Why must some of us deliberate between brands of toothpaste while others deliberate between damp dirt and bone dust to quiet the fire of an empty stomach lining?

~ Barbara Kingsolver

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...when the public nerve is aroused, the most impressive capacity of man is his skill for lying.

~ Barbara Kingsolver

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Most of them don't know what communism is, could not pick it out of a lineup. They only know what anticommunism is. The two are practically unrelated.

~ Barbara Kingsolver

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Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.

~ Barbara Kingsolver

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Outside in the sun the Holy Mother stood on her pedestal in the garden, sorry but unsympathetic. The usual position of mothers.

~ Barbara Kingsolver

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