A sound-bite culture can’t discuss science very well. Exactly what we’re losing when we reduce biodiversity, the causes and consequences of global warming-these traumas can’t be adequately summarized in an evening news wrap-up.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERIt kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
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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 see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one’s own.
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The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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No human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.
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I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer’s block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don’t. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.
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Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.
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Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you’re contagious.
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I concentrate on character, theme, language, structure, voice. It actually surprises me that no matter what I write, people declare it “intently political.” I’m just writing about the world I know, as it is. Wounds and griefs included.
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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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Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.
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As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer’s long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn’t touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn’t stop.
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A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn’t do.
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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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