It’s terrible to lose somebody, but it’s also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that’s got to be so much worse.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERIt occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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…nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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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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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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I know I’m a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
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You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.
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If we can’t, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
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You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.
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You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
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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.
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… Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, ‘so far from everything?’ When I hear this question over the phone, I’m usually looking out the window at a forest, a running creek, and a vegetable garden, thinking: Define everything.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that’s awfully hard not to poke.
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