The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERIf you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
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The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can’t persist much longer. If it does, then we won’t.
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Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don’t attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.
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Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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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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Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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Now I’m starting to think he wasn’t supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
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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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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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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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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.
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