A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERForgive 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.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
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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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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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It’s terrible to lose somebody, but it’s also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that’s got to be so much worse.
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Height isn’t something you can have and just let be, like nice teeth or naturally curly hair. People have this idea you have to put it to use, playing basketball, for example, or observing the weather up there. If you are a girl, they feel a particular need to point your height out to you, as if you might not have noticed.
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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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Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.
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Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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Last time I talked to her she didn’t sound like herself. She’s depressed. It’s awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they’re no good.
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The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they’re afraid to plant themselves?
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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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For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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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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Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and get ready for the world to assume every word is true.
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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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Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
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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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I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.
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Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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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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Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down.” – Mrs. Brown
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