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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVEREvery life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
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I know I’m a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
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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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organization is the religion of the single parent.
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I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don’t move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.
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…nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
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I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written.
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One of the very first things I figured out about life…is that it’s better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you’re hopeful, you have more fun.
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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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Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man’s skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people’s back yards.
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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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People read books to escape the uncertainties of 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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From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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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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