Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he’s entitled to joy rather than submission?
BARBARA KINGSOLVERA writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It’s just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.
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The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
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The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings, and a fat white body with black spots running down it like a snowman’s coal buttons.
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You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
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You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
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organization is the religion of the single parent.
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The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see, be, or believe. It’s more like conversation, raising new questions and inspiring you to answer them for yourself.
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In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune.
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Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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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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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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