The thing is, it’s my own fault. I just can’t put up with a person that won’t go out of his way for me. And that’s what a man is. Somebody that won’t go out of his way for you. I bet it says that in the dictionary.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThere are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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The way I see it, a person isn’t nothing more than a scarecrow… The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they’re stuck up there on.
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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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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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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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Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
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Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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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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The bad thing about small-town life is that everybody knows your business…I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
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What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
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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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Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
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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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