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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERWrite a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and get ready for the world to assume every word is true.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune.
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What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
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Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don’t move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.
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A sound-bite culture can’t discuss science very well. Exactly what we’re losing when we reduce biodiversity, the causes and consequences of global warming-these traumas can’t be adequately summarized in an evening news wrap-up.
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… Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, ‘so far from everything?’ When I hear this question over the phone, I’m usually looking out the window at a forest, a running creek, and a vegetable garden, thinking: Define everything.
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Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
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If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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I prefer to remain anomalous.
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