Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
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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the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they’re afraid to plant themselves?
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I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer’s block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don’t. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.
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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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If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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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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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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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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One of the very first things I figured out about life…is that it’s better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you’re hopeful, you have more fun.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man’s skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people’s back yards.
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You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
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