The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERPeople read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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The substance of grief is not imaginary. It’s as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill.
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I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.
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Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
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Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don’t; but we wear it all the same
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Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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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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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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I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer’s block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don’t. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.
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The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
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I know I’m a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
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Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
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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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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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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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Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.
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You think you’re the foreigner here, and I’m the American, and I just look the other way while the President or somebody sends down this and that . . . to torture people with. But nobody asked my permission, okay? Sometimes I feel like I’m a foreigner, too.
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People ask without wanting to know.
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The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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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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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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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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