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!
BARBARA KINGSOLVERSleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you’re contagious.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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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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Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
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I prefer to remain anomalous.
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She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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To think is not always to see.
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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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For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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I didn’t study writing in school, I studied biology as an undergraduate and graduate student. So I think that I write fiction in the scientific way. I love invention, obviously; I love creation of character. But I do feel very rooted in the real world, even in the way that I create characters.
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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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I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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A sound-bite culture can’t discuss science very well. Exactly what we’re losing when we reduce biodiversity, the causes and consequences of global warming-these traumas can’t be adequately summarized in an evening news wrap-up.
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There are some who’d hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think’s been too lucky.
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Height isn’t something you can have and just let be, like nice teeth or naturally curly hair. People have this idea you have to put it to use, playing basketball, for example, or observing the weather up there. If you are a girl, they feel a particular need to point your height out to you, as if you might not have noticed.
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