When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that’s awfully hard not to poke.
BARBARA KINGSOLVEROur childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune.
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Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and get ready for the world to assume every word is true.
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Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.
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The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
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Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven.
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She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I’m concerned that’s like accusing a dog of having a bark!
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Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just turned loose elephantiasis and microes that eat the human cornea. Now I understand, God is not just rooting fo the dollies.
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He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.
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If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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…prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or a heart or a seed curled into itself in the ground could resist welcoming it back when it came.
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Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don’t move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.
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I never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.
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Now, see, that’s why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy…the trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn’t agree with you, all that’s left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho.
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Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you’re contagious.
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Maybe life doesn’t get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we’re willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.
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