My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERIf we can’t, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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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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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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Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
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Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
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If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that’s awfully hard not to poke.
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To think is not always to see.
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Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
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Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms.
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Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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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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The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
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