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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERTo think is not always to see.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If the shark comes they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten.
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People ask without wanting to know.
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A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn’t do.
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I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
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I never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.
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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.
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It’s terrible to lose somebody, but it’s also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that’s got to be so much worse.
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Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn’t it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.
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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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Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it’s not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.
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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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If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.
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