Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERListen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.
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Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it’s going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas and concerns and even catastrophes that they will think about in a new way.
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Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just turned loose elephantiasis and microes that eat the human cornea. Now I understand, God is not just rooting fo the dollies.
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Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.
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Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.
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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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Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.
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Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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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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If we can’t, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
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Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career – my anti-job – that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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To people who think of themselves as God’s houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.
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How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
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I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
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