the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
BARBARA KINGSOLVERHonk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes
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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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Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.
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This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If the shark comes they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten.
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I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
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All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.
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When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that’s awfully hard not to poke.
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The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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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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Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you’ll behave to other people.
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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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My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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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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