The truth needs so little rehearsal.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERI prefer to remain anomalous.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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The thing is, it’s my own fault. I just can’t put up with a person that won’t go out of his way for me. And that’s what a man is. Somebody that won’t go out of his way for you. I bet it says that in the dictionary.
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Maybe life doesn’t get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we’re willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.
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You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
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High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
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Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
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In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
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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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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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How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.
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There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.
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Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
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Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
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People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.
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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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There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, ‘There now, hang on, you’ll get over it.’ Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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It’s what you do that makes your soul.
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I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it’s going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas and concerns and even catastrophes that they will think about in a new way.
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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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