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Few Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver
- Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
- I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
- Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next,…
- What we end up calling history is a kind of knife, slicing down through time. A few people are hard enough to bend its edge.…
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