Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he’s entitled to joy rather than submission?
BARBARA KINGSOLVERSugar, 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.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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Sadness is more or less like a head cold – with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
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A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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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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Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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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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Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.
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