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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERRecall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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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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Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.
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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 certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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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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We’re animals. We’re born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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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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What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.
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Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.
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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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We agreed with him in principal – we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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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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The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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