organization is the religion of the single parent.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERDoes a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he’s entitled to joy rather than submission?
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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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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The bad thing about small-town life is that everybody knows your business…I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
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You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.
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Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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It’s what you do that makes your soul.
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As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer’s long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn’t touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn’t stop.
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Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
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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.
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There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.
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All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.
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Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
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Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
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Now I’m starting to think he wasn’t supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
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Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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