I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERLiterature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you’ll behave to other people.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Don’t wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.
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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
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The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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No human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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To think is not always to see.
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Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.
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Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just turned loose elephantiasis and microes that eat the human cornea. Now I understand, God is not just rooting fo the dollies.
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If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history… Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.
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A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
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I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
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Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can’t persist much longer. If it does, then we won’t.
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Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you’re contagious.
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