In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERCooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don’t know what I’m looking for. I just do it.
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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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All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.
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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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I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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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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Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don’t; but we wear it all the same
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Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
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If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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But kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run.
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A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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