I prefer to remain anomalous.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERI could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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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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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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Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.
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Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes
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But kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run.
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Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
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Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what’s not in it.
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Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don’t; but we wear it all the same
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Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.
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You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one’s own.
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My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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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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The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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