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Barbara Kingsolver

The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings, and a fat white body with black spots running down it like a snowman’s coal buttons.
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Black Eye Geometric Running Shape White
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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Perfect Time Writing
The bad thing about small-town life is that everybody knows your business…I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
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Business Know Obsession Small Suppose Town
How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.
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Bird Book Want
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
I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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Knows Pretending
You think you’re the foreigner here, and I’m the American, and I just look the other way while the President or somebody sends down this and that . . . to torture people with. But nobody asked my permission, okay? Sometimes I feel like I’m a foreigner, too.
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People President Thinking
Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see, be, or believe. It’s more like conversation, raising new questions and inspiring you to answer them for yourself.
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Believe Moving Writing
Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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Appreciate Family Stranger
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
You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
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Crazy People Self
What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.
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Book Fall Rocks
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
Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it’s going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas and concerns and even catastrophes that they will think about in a new way.
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Real Thinking Writing
I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don’t move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.
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Mountain Moving Winning
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Empathy Fiction Stranger

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