They all attended Hester’s church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.
BARBARA KINGSOLVEREaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.
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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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there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I’m concerned that’s like accusing a dog of having a bark!
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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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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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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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Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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I prefer to remain anomalous.
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A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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If we can’t, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
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He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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