Sugar, it’s no parade but you’ll get down the street one way or another, so you’d just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERSilence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It’s the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.
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I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
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We’re surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
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Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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I’m of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
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People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
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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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…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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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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There are some who’d hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think’s been too lucky.
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Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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Last time I talked to her she didn’t sound like herself. She’s depressed. It’s awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they’re no good.
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I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
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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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