I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERA good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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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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Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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…prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or a heart or a seed curled into itself in the ground could resist welcoming it back when it came.
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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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School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.
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The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings, and a fat white body with black spots running down it like a snowman’s coal buttons.
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Last time I talked to her she didn’t sound like herself. She’s depressed. It’s awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they’re no good.
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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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A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
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You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
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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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Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.
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