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Barbara Kingsolver

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
I never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.
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Political Thinking Writing
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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Change May Salvation
It’s terrible to lose somebody, but it’s also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that’s got to be so much worse.
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People Terrible Thinking
No human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.
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Before Human Unnoticed World
In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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Life Thing World Wrong
Don’t wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.
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Ethics Waiting Work Writing
Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes
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Ada Balance Trying
You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
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might Next Splits
I concentrate on character, theme, language, structure, voice. It actually surprises me that no matter what I write, people declare it “intently political.” I’m just writing about the world I know, as it is. Wounds and griefs included.
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Character Grief Writing
The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
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Animal Average Vacation
I know I’m a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
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Novelist Rare Person Writing
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
A sound-bite culture can’t discuss science very well. Exactly what we’re losing when we reduce biodiversity, the causes and consequences of global warming-these traumas can’t be adequately summarized in an evening news wrap-up.
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Causes Evening Sound
For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Enterprise Life Threatening
Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.
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Believe Heart Kids

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