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.
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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If we can’t, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
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I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day you decide to raise fuzzy little gerbils?
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There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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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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Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It’s just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.
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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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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.
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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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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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The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
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You don’t think you’ll live past it and you don’t really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that’s still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.
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Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what’s not in it.
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I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written.
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Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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