…nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERA dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
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Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.
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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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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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Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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I’m of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
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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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The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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