Downstream is always someone else’s up.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERSilence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
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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What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings, and a fat white body with black spots running down it like a snowman’s coal buttons.
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It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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…prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or a heart or a seed curled into itself in the ground could resist welcoming it back when it came.
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Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can’t even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
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Height isn’t something you can have and just let be, like nice teeth or naturally curly hair. People have this idea you have to put it to use, playing basketball, for example, or observing the weather up there. If you are a girl, they feel a particular need to point your height out to you, as if you might not have noticed.
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It’s terrible to lose somebody, but it’s also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that’s got to be so much worse.
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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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I didn’t study writing in school, I studied biology as an undergraduate and graduate student. So I think that I write fiction in the scientific way. I love invention, obviously; I love creation of character. But I do feel very rooted in the real world, even in the way that I create characters.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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It’s a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can’t begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
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Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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