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"Sometimes history cleaves and for one helpless moment stands still like the pause when the ax splits a log and the two halves rest on end waiting to fall."

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About Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver is an American novelist, poet, and essayist known for literary fiction addressing social and environmental themes. She has received major literary awards for her novels.

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"The fact of the matter is that whether it's in London or Egypt or Turkey or New York or Washingto..."
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"A writer should never allow himself to be lulled out of the vigilance native to his profession."