I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.
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Sugar, it’s no parade but you’ll get down the street one way or another, so you’d just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
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Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.
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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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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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A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn’t do.
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From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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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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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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Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes
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