Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERA flower is a plant’s way of making love.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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You think you’re the foreigner here, and I’m the American, and I just look the other way while the President or somebody sends down this and that . . . to torture people with. But nobody asked my permission, okay? Sometimes I feel like I’m a foreigner, too.
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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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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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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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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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… Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, ‘so far from everything?’ When I hear this question over the phone, I’m usually looking out the window at a forest, a running creek, and a vegetable garden, thinking: Define everything.
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Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can’t persist much longer. If it does, then we won’t.
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In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune.
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Insomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That’s what it’s like in my head. The light stays on.
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What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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