Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it’s not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.
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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To think is not always to see.
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If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune.
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Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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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 concentrate on character, theme, language, structure, voice. It actually surprises me that no matter what I write, people declare it “intently political.” I’m just writing about the world I know, as it is. Wounds and griefs included.
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We agreed with him in principal – we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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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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There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.
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It’s what you do that makes your soul.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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People ask without wanting to know.
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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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