The bad thing about small-town life is that everybody knows your business…I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERCooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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It’s one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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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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The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
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It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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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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I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day you decide to raise fuzzy little gerbils?
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Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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To people who think of themselves as God’s houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.
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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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