organization is the religion of the single parent.
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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No human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.
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Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he’s entitled to joy rather than submission?
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Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it’s going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas and concerns and even catastrophes that they will think about in a new way.
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Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
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Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down.” – Mrs. Brown
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School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.
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Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they’re afraid to plant themselves?
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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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From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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It’s what you do that makes your soul.
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Sadness is more or less like a head cold – with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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If we can’t, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
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There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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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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