I’ve about decided that’s the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you’re a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERHonk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down.” – Mrs. Brown
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Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see, be, or believe. It’s more like conversation, raising new questions and inspiring you to answer them for yourself.
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I never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.
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This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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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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If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.
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If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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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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If we can’t, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
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