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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER… 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.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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It’s what you do that makes your soul.
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I didn’t study writing in school, I studied biology as an undergraduate and graduate student. So I think that I write fiction in the scientific way. I love invention, obviously; I love creation of character. But I do feel very rooted in the real world, even in the way that I create characters.
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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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Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
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He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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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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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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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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Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven.
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Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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I’m of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
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