Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERYou never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you’ll behave to other people.
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Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see, be, or believe. It’s more like conversation, raising new questions and inspiring you to answer them for yourself.
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It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
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To people who think of themselves as God’s houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.
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When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that’s awfully hard not to poke.
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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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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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…prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or a heart or a seed curled into itself in the ground could resist welcoming it back when it came.
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I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
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The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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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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Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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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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I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don’t move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.
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Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes
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There are some who’d hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think’s been too lucky.
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You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.
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