The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERIt’s what you do that makes your soul.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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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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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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One of the very first things I figured out about life…is that it’s better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you’re hopeful, you have more fun.
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I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.
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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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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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Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.
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Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.
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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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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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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 very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you’ll behave to other people.
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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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