The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERCodi: Gives you the willies, doesn’t it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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I prefer to remain anomalous.
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There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.
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What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
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One of the very first things I figured out about life…is that it’s better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you’re hopeful, you have more fun.
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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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Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
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Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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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’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
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We agreed with him in principal – we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.
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Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.
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The bad thing about small-town life is that everybody knows your business…I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
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