Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThe loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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To people who think of themselves as God’s houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.
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When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that’s awfully hard not to poke.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes
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Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven.
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A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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Sugar, it’s no parade but you’ll get down the street one way or another, so you’d just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
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Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don’t; but we wear it all the same
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We’re surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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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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