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Book: The Lacuna
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Barbara Kingsolver _ The Lacuna
But honestly, XARrizZON! It sounds like strangling. What kind of a name is that?" "It was a president, señora." "Of what? Some place where they don't have any oxygen?" "Of the United States." "As I said.
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Barbara Kingsolver _ The Lacuna
I am looking for the door to another world. I've waited thousands of years. Take me.
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Barbara Kingsolver _ The Lacuna
From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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Barbara Kingsolver _ The Lacuna
Freedom of the presses to destroy a person's life for no good reason." {Lacuna, p. 419}
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Barbara Kingsolver _ The Lacuna
Zola wrote that the mendacity of the press could be divided into two groups: the yellow press lies every day without hesitating. But others, like the Times, speak the truth on all inconsequential occasions, so they can deceive the public with the requisite authority when it becomes necessary.
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Barbara Kingsolver _ The Lacuna
Well, my stars, the thing was like the Bible-look hard enough in its pages, and you'll find what you seek. Love your neighbor, or slay him with the jawbone of an ass.
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Barbara Kingsolver _ The Lacuna
If God speaks for the man who keeps quiet, then Violet Brown may be His instrument.
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Barbara Kingsolver _ The Lacuna
With that one little booklet put back in place, it came as a different story. Because of that burrow through rock and water-lacuna, he called it. This time I read with a different heart, understanding the hero would still be standing at journey's end. Or at least, live or die, he'd known of a chance and aimed to take it.
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Barbara Kingsolver _ The Lacuna
it. But when a man's words are taken from him and poisoned, it's the same as poisoning the man. He could not speak, for how his own tongue would be fouled. Words were his all. I felt I'd witnessed a murder, just as he'd seen his friend murdered in Mexico. Only this time they left the body living.
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Barbara Kingsolver _ The Lacuna
In the scullery kitchens and probably the salt mines of this world, many a child is not so much raised as hammered into shape, Artie. To be of use. Surviving by the grace of utility alone."
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Barbara Kingsolver _ The Lacuna
quoting Díaz: "Only in her home, like a butterfly in a glass jar, can woman progress to her highest level of decency.
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Barbara Kingsolver _ The Lacuna
The notebook from the tobacco stand was the beginning of hope: a prisoner's plan for escape. Its empty pages would be the book of everything, miraculous and unending like the sea at night, a heartbeat that never stops. Salomé for her part was not worried about running out of books, only of having her clothes go out of fashion.
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