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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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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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Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
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I never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.
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Everything truly important is washable.
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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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You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.
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One of the very first things I figured out about life…is that it’s better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you’re hopeful, you have more fun.
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How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.
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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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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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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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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 conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
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