I know I’m a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERIf you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down.” – Mrs. Brown
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No human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.
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We’re surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
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Sugar, it’s no parade but you’ll get down the street one way or another, so you’d just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
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Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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The substance of grief is not imaginary. It’s as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill.
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Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it’s not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.
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Everything truly important is washable.
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I’m widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I’m not sure I can finish, generating at the edge of my powers. Some people bungee jump; I write.
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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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School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.
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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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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
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As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer’s long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn’t touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn’t stop.
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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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Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
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A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
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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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I don’t bring expectations to any of my books. I don’t tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
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I prefer to remain anomalous.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It’s just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.
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