The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERI personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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You think you’re the foreigner here, and I’m the American, and I just look the other way while the President or somebody sends down this and that . . . to torture people with. But nobody asked my permission, okay? Sometimes I feel like I’m a foreigner, too.
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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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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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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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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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People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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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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…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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The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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There are some who’d hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think’s been too lucky.
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I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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The substance of grief is not imaginary. It’s as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill.
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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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