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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERLiterature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you’ll behave to other people.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
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You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don’t attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.
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If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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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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Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and get ready for the world to assume every word is true.
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A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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If we can’t, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
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… Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, ‘so far from everything?’ When I hear this question over the phone, I’m usually looking out the window at a forest, a running creek, and a vegetable garden, thinking: Define everything.
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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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From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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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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To think is not always to see.
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I don’t bring expectations to any of my books. I don’t tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
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My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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I’m widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I’m not sure I can finish, generating at the edge of my powers. Some people bungee jump; I 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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Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Don’t wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.
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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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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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She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It’s just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.
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That was when we smelled the rain. It was so strong it seemed like more than just a smell. When we stretched out our hands we could practically feel it rising up from the ground. I don’t know how a person could ever describe that scent.
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The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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