Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don’t; but we wear it all the same
BARBARA KINGSOLVERIn the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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But kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run.
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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 never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.
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A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.
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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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The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to 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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A sound-bite culture can’t discuss science very well. Exactly what we’re losing when we reduce biodiversity, the causes and consequences of global warming-these traumas can’t be adequately summarized in an evening news wrap-up.
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If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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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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Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it’s going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas and concerns and even catastrophes that they will think about in a new way.
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Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.
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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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