There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERIn the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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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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The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see. Presumably the unselfish motives will follow as we wise up.
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Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.
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I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written.
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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I’m of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
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People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer’s block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don’t. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.
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People ask without wanting to know.
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Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can’t even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
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Now, see, that’s why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy…the trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn’t agree with you, all that’s left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho.
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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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Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes
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Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed.
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