The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThe truth needs so little rehearsal.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.
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I never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.
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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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The bad thing about small-town life is that everybody knows your business…I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to 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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It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
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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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…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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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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Sadness is more or less like a head cold – with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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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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A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it’s not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.
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I prefer to remain anomalous.
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This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark.
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One of the very first things I figured out about life…is that it’s better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you’re hopeful, you have more fun.
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In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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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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Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
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It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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