I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERI prefer to remain anomalous.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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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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You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.
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If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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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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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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She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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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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No human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.
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The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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I don’t bring expectations to any of my books. I don’t tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday.
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How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
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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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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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