Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history… Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERNo human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day you decide to raise fuzzy little gerbils?
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It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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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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Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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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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We agreed with him in principal – we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.
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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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I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings, and a fat white body with black spots running down it like a snowman’s coal buttons.
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The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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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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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 wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.
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No human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.
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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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It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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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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Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.
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One of the very first things I figured out about life…is that it’s better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you’re hopeful, you have more fun.
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