If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
Downstream is always someone else’s up.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.
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Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed.
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A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, ‘There now, hang on, you’ll get over it.’ Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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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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The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.
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Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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