The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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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Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career – my anti-job – that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you’ll behave to other people.
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I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
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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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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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Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
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Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.
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There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don’t attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.
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Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday.
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There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.
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