The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
BARBARA KINGSOLVERNothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms.
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The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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The thing is, it’s my own fault. I just can’t put up with a person that won’t go out of his way for me. And that’s what a man is. Somebody that won’t go out of his way for you. I bet it says that in the dictionary.
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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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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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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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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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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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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
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If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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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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The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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To think is not always to see.
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