“I know how people are, with their habits of mind. Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean as snow… I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.”

— Barbara Kingsolver , The Poisonwood Bible

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American author, poet and essayist 1955

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