Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERA certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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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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Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed.
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You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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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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This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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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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In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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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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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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Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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We’re animals. We’re born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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