Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERTo think is not always to see.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
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If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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I didn’t study writing in school, I studied biology as an undergraduate and graduate student. So I think that I write fiction in the scientific way. I love invention, obviously; I love creation of character. But I do feel very rooted in the real world, even in the way that I create characters.
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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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I’m of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
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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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The substance of grief is not imaginary. It’s as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill.
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Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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Insomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That’s what it’s like in my head. The light stays on.
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Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you’re contagious.
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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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There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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