Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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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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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There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.
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It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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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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She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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Height isn’t something you can have and just let be, like nice teeth or naturally curly hair. People have this idea you have to put it to use, playing basketball, for example, or observing the weather up there. If you are a girl, they feel a particular need to point your height out to you, as if you might not have noticed.
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My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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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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Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
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Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
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It’s terrible to lose somebody, but it’s also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that’s got to be so much worse.
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I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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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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Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don’t; but we wear it all the same
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