Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERAll of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
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Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERClose the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.
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The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThe most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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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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I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERI rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.
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Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.
BARBARA KINGSOLVEROnce you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.
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He needs to go rub his soul against life.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERHe needs to go rub his soul against life.
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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERIt kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.
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If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERIf you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERGrowing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.
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In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERIn a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings, and a fat white body with black spots running down it like a snowman’s coal buttons.
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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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERRecall 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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Maybe life doesn’t get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we’re willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.
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You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERYou never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
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