If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERHouseholds that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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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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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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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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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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We agreed with him in principal – we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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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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Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
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Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
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Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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I prefer to remain anomalous.
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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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Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can’t persist much longer. If it does, then we won’t.
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