The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER- A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
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A 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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The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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Now I’m starting to think he wasn’t supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERNow I’m starting to think he wasn’t supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
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We’re animals. We’re born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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You don’t think you’ll live past it and you don’t really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that’s still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERYou don’t think you’ll live past it and you don’t really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that’s still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERI do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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To think is not always to see.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERTo think is not always to see.
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A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERA certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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organization is the religion of the single parent.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERorganization is the religion of the single parent.
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Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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Sadness is more or less like a head cold – with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERSadness is more or less like a head cold – with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that’s awfully hard not to poke.
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I’m widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I’m not sure I can finish, generating at the edge of my powers. Some people bungee jump; I write.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERI’m widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I’m not sure I can finish, generating at the edge of my powers. Some people bungee jump; I write.
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Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERRecall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
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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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERBe 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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A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERA writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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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.
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