I prefer to remain anomalous.
BARBARA KINGSOLVEROne 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.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.
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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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From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I’m concerned that’s like accusing a dog of having a bark!
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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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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.
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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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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I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If the shark comes they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten.
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Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
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