Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you’re contagious.
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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People ask without wanting to know.
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People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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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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Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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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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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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The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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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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I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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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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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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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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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.
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