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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.

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• ‟ Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.

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• ‟ I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.

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• ‟ After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.

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• ‟ When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to prevail; they fear someone else will get their piece of the pie.

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• ‟ People in my novels always have terrible problems. If they are not terrible, I make them more terrible.

  - Barbara Kingsolver