Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERIt’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
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This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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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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The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
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Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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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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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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All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.
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Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
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A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn’t do.
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Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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