The truth needs so little rehearsal.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERGlobal commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
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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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Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.
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For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
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Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he’s entitled to joy rather than submission?
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As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer’s long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn’t touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn’t stop.
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The way I see it, a person isn’t nothing more than a scarecrow… The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they’re stuck up there on.
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organization is the religion of the single parent.
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People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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To think is not always to see.
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