It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERPeople love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for 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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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career – my anti-job – that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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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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The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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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 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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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
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The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark.
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I prefer to remain anomalous.
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