The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERFeeling 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.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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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… Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.
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How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.
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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
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Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
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Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
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Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.
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It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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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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It is harrowing for me to try to teach 20-year-old students, who earnestly want to improve their writing. The best I can think to tell them is: Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.
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Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It’s the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.
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Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.
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A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
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For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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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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Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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