The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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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I know I’m a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
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Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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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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Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don’t attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.
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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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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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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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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career – my anti-job – that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it’s not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.
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What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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