It’s a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can’t begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
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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Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
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The bad thing about small-town life is that everybody knows your business…I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
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the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
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It’s one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it’s not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.
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The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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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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Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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I don’t bring expectations to any of my books. I don’t tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
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Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
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There are some who’d hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think’s been too lucky.
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Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms.
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Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
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