Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERTo think is not always to see.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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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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It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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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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Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they’re afraid to plant themselves?
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He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man’s skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people’s back yards.
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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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Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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We agreed with him in principal – we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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We’re animals. We’re born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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organization is the religion of the single parent.
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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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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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