Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERHeight 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.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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You don’t think you’ll live past it and you don’t really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that’s still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.
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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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If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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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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I know I’m a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
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He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
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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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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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To think is not always to see.
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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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Don’t wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.
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