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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERMy worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
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You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.
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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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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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Now I’m starting to think he wasn’t supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
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…nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
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Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.
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Sugar, it’s no parade but you’ll get down the street one way or another, so you’d just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
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Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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They all attended Hester’s church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.
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A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
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My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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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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