I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERHow strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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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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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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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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Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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I’m widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I’m not sure I can finish, generating at the edge of my powers. Some people bungee jump; I write.
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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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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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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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I prefer to remain anomalous.
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A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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