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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERDownstream is always someone else’s up.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
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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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I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written.
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She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday.
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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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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.
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A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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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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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 you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
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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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That was when we smelled the rain. It was so strong it seemed like more than just a smell. When we stretched out our hands we could practically feel it rising up from the ground. I don’t know how a person could ever describe that scent.
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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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A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
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I’ve about decided that’s the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you’re a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.
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Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
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Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
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