If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThis is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It’s just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.
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If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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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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Insomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That’s what it’s like in my head. The light stays on.
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history… Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.
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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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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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If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
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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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there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I’m concerned that’s like accusing a dog of having a bark!
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The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they’re feeling because that’s how I read the seed catalogs in January.
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Now, see, that’s why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy…the trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn’t agree with you, all that’s left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho.
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A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
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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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If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it’s not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.
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Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes
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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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It’s a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can’t begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
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My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don’t know what I’m looking for. I just do it.
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She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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