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We’re surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.

Barbara Kingsolver

You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don’t attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.
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Group Needs World
This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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Believe Country States Thinking United
I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they’re feeling because that’s how I read the seed catalogs in January.
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Eye Hands Heart
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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Cancer Depression Sadness
I’m of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
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Library Mind Soul
From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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Fallen Tree Trouble
The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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Balance Injury Success
Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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Cure First Kill
Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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Cost Greed Money
People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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Errors People Sin
Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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Balance Expectations Pajamas
It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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Changed Frightening Love Things
It’s one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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Else One Thing Somewhere
To think is not always to see.
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Always Thinking Visible
High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
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Fashion Past Salad
As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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Animal Plant Thinking

We’re surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.

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