He needs to go rub his soul against life.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERWherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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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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If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
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You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.
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Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.
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That was when we smelled the rain. It was so strong it seemed like more than just a smell. When we stretched out our hands we could practically feel it rising up from the ground. I don’t know how a person could ever describe that scent.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark.
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Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what’s not in it.
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