Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can’t persist much longer. If it does, then we won’t.
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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Sadness is more or less like a head cold – with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don’t know what I’m looking for. I just do it.
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This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If the shark comes they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten.
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Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms.
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there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I’m concerned that’s like accusing a dog of having a bark!
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Everything truly important is washable.
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There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.
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We’re surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
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He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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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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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career – my anti-job – that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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