Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERIt’s what you do that makes your soul.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERIf you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.
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A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERA certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERVengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one’s own.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERYou see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one’s own.
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She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERShe kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERTime cures you first, and then it kills you.
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the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
BARBARA KINGSOLVERthe conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
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The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThe average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
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This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThis is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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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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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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Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
BARBARA KINGSOLVEROur childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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People ask without wanting to know.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERPeople ask without wanting to know.
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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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERHow pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
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