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.
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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It’s what you do that makes your soul.
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My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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I don’t bring expectations to any of my books. I don’t tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
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I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer’s block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don’t. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.
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The thing is, it’s my own fault. I just can’t put up with a person that won’t go out of his way for me. And that’s what a man is. Somebody that won’t go out of his way for you. I bet it says that in the dictionary.
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The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history… Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.
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A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
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The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
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The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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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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I prefer to remain anomalous.
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