Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERShe kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Sadness is more or less like a head cold – with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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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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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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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.
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This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If the shark comes they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten.
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The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I’m concerned that’s like accusing a dog of having a bark!
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To people who think of themselves as God’s houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.
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When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that’s awfully hard not to poke.
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This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark.
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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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It’s what you do that makes your soul.
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In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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