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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

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
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
For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Enterprise Life Threatening
If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
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Jobs Standing Stink
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
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
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
Now I’m starting to think he wasn’t supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
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Doorways Starting Thinking
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
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Different Life Way
Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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Prayer Transactions
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
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Criminal Inspirational Memories Mind
Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
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Looks Patience World
The way I see it, a person isn’t nothing more than a scarecrow… The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they’re stuck up there on.
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Blow Differences Way
Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
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Everything Right Sure Travel

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