You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERthere 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!
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
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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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Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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I’m of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
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To people who think of themselves as God’s houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.
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If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they’re feeling because that’s how I read the seed catalogs in January.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career – my anti-job – that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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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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As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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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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The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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People ask without wanting to know.
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