It’s one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERIt’s one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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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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I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
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What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.
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If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
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Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can’t even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
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Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.
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People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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I’m of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
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The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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I prefer to remain anomalous.
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We’re surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
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I concentrate on character, theme, language, structure, voice. It actually surprises me that no matter what I write, people declare it “intently political.” I’m just writing about the world I know, as it is. Wounds and griefs included.
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Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.
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How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
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A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
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She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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Last time I talked to her she didn’t sound like herself. She’s depressed. It’s awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they’re no good.
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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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The way I see it, a person isn’t nothing more than a scarecrow… The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they’re stuck up there on.
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