He needs to go rub his soul against life.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERHow strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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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 could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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…nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
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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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Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.
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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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It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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Maybe life doesn’t get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we’re willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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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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I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written.
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