Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERDoes a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he’s entitled to joy rather than submission?
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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It’s a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can’t begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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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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I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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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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You don’t think you’ll live past it and you don’t really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that’s still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.
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A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
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They all attended Hester’s church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.
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I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written.
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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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Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
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We’re animals. We’re born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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You think you’re the foreigner here, and I’m the American, and I just look the other way while the President or somebody sends down this and that . . . to torture people with. But nobody asked my permission, okay? Sometimes I feel like I’m a foreigner, too.
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Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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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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There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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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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It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.
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Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just turned loose elephantiasis and microes that eat the human cornea. Now I understand, God is not just rooting fo the dollies.
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I’ve about decided that’s the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you’re a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.
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