Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERI live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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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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The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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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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If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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Last time I talked to her she didn’t sound like herself. She’s depressed. It’s awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they’re no good.
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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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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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Every 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.
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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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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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The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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The thing is, it’s my own fault. I just can’t put up with a person that won’t go out of his way for me. And that’s what a man is. Somebody that won’t go out of his way for you. I bet it says that in the dictionary.
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Don’t wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.
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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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