The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
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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It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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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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There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune.
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The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.
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I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
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You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
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What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
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One of the very first things I figured out about life…is that it’s better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you’re hopeful, you have more fun.
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…nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
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I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
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