For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERI prefer to remain anomalous.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don’t move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.
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Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.
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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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A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn’t do.
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The thing is, it’s my own fault. I just can’t put up with a person that won’t go out of his way for me. And that’s what a man is. Somebody that won’t go out of his way for you. I bet it says that in the dictionary.
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When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday.
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Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
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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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Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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Sadness is more or less like a head cold – with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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