Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERWhen moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that’s awfully hard not to poke.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you’ll behave to other people.
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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.
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Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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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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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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If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don’t move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.
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It is harrowing for me to try to teach 20-year-old students, who earnestly want to improve their writing. The best I can think to tell them is: Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.
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Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can’t persist much longer. If it does, then we won’t.
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Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.
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Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
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I never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.
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