I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
BARBARA KINGSOLVEREverything truly important is washable.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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The way I see it, a person isn’t nothing more than a scarecrow… The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they’re stuck up there on.
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Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man’s skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people’s back yards.
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High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
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If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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Sadness is more or less like a head cold – with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.
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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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Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you’re contagious.
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I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day you decide to raise fuzzy little gerbils?
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Maybe life doesn’t get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we’re willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.
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It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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Insomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That’s what it’s like in my head. The light stays on.
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