No human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.
BARBARA KINGSOLVEREvery time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don’t know what I’m looking for. I just do it.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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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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A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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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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She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
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Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don’t; but we wear it all the same
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Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.
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If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
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