What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERthe conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one’s own.
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Maybe life doesn’t get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we’re willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.
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there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I’m concerned that’s like accusing a dog of having a bark!
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organization is the religion of the single parent.
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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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To people who think of themselves as God’s houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.
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Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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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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Now I’m starting to think he wasn’t supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
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How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
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My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.
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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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Don’t wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.
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