Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERI prefer to remain anomalous.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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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’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
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there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I’m concerned that’s like accusing a dog of having a bark!
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I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day you decide to raise fuzzy little gerbils?
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Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can’t persist much longer. If it does, then we won’t.
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It’s one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It’s the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.
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It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
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Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.
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The way I see it, a person isn’t nothing more than a scarecrow… The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they’re stuck up there on.
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history… Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.
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It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.
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Write 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.
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