Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don’t; but we wear it all the same
BARBARA KINGSOLVERIt’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.
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Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
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If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
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I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer’s block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don’t. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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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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If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.
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Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can’t even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
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I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day you decide to raise fuzzy little gerbils?
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What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn’t it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.
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Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it’s going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas and concerns and even catastrophes that they will think about in a new way.
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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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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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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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For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
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I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
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People ask without wanting to know.
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Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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