The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERInsomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That’s what it’s like in my head. The light stays on.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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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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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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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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The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings, and a fat white body with black spots running down it like a snowman’s coal buttons.
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Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man’s skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people’s back yards.
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I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
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Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.
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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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there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I’m concerned that’s like accusing a dog of having a bark!
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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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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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What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
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