Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don’t; but we wear it all the same
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThere are some who’d hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think’s been too lucky.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
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Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.
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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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It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
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Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.
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Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It’s the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.
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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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Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.
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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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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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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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It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
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Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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Height isn’t something you can have and just let be, like nice teeth or naturally curly hair. People have this idea you have to put it to use, playing basketball, for example, or observing the weather up there. If you are a girl, they feel a particular need to point your height out to you, as if you might not have noticed.
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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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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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I prefer to remain anomalous.
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down.” – Mrs. Brown
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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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School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.
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…prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or a heart or a seed curled into itself in the ground could resist welcoming it back when it came.
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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
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