Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
BARBARA KINGSOLVEREmpathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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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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We’re animals. We’re born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.
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No human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.
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I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don’t; but we wear it all the same
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Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed.
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How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.
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Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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I don’t bring expectations to any of my books. I don’t tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
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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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Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can’t persist much longer. If it does, then we won’t.
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Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see, be, or believe. It’s more like conversation, raising new questions and inspiring you to answer them for yourself.
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