The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThe moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings, and a fat white body with black spots running down it like a snowman’s coal buttons.
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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Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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I concentrate on character, theme, language, structure, voice. It actually surprises me that no matter what I write, people declare it “intently political.” I’m just writing about the world I know, as it is. Wounds and griefs included.
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A sound-bite culture can’t discuss science very well. Exactly what we’re losing when we reduce biodiversity, the causes and consequences of global warming-these traumas can’t be adequately summarized in an evening news wrap-up.
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People ask without wanting to know.
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Sugar, it’s no parade but you’ll get down the street one way or another, so you’d just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
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The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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We’re surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
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If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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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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Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man’s skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people’s back yards.
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Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don’t; but we wear it all the same
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I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they’re feeling because that’s how I read the seed catalogs in January.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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