Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERIn 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.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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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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I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
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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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… Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, ‘so far from everything?’ When I hear this question over the phone, I’m usually looking out the window at a forest, a running creek, and a vegetable garden, thinking: Define everything.
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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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Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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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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School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.
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Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed.
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We’re surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
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Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can’t persist much longer. If it does, then we won’t.
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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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It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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It’s what you do that makes your soul.
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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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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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If we can’t, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
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Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just turned loose elephantiasis and microes that eat the human cornea. Now I understand, God is not just rooting fo the dollies.
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Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
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organization is the religion of the single parent.
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I’m widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I’m not sure I can finish, generating at the edge of my powers. Some people bungee jump; I write.
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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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If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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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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