We agreed with him in principal – we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERSugar, it’s no parade but you’ll get down the street one way or another, so you’d just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I’m concerned that’s like accusing a dog of having a bark!
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Insomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That’s what it’s like in my head. The light stays on.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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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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I’m widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I’m not sure I can finish, generating at the edge of my powers. Some people bungee jump; I write.
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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 it’s important, your heart remembers.
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I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he’s entitled to joy rather than submission?
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This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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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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Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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