Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThe very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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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.
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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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Everything truly important is washable.
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There are some who’d hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think’s been too lucky.
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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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It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
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Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.
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Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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Don’t wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.
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A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn’t do.
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My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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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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If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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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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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history… Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.
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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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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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Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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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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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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Now, see, that’s why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy…the trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn’t agree with you, all that’s left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho.
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Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he’s entitled to joy rather than submission?
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