Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they’re afraid to plant themselves?
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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Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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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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I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday.
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You don’t think you’ll live past it and you don’t really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that’s still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.
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It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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Now I’m starting to think he wasn’t supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
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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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… Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, ‘so far from everything?’ When I hear this question over the phone, I’m usually looking out the window at a forest, a running creek, and a vegetable garden, thinking: Define everything.
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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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