A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERI’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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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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If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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I’ve about decided that’s the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you’re a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.
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We’re animals. We’re born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it’s going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas and concerns and even catastrophes that they will think about in a new way.
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It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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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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I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
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