People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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’m of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
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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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The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can’t persist much longer. If it does, then we won’t.
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A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don’t move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.
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There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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You don’t think you’ll live past it and you don’t really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that’s still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.
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There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.
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The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see. Presumably the unselfish motives will follow as we wise up.
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Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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