The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThe most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn’t it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.
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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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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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There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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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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Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
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The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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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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There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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The way I see it, a person isn’t nothing more than a scarecrow… The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they’re stuck up there on.
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Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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Many of us who aren’t farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.
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As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer’s long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn’t touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn’t stop.
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