A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERMr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down.” – Mrs. Brown
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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One of the very first things I figured out about life…is that it’s better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you’re hopeful, you have more fun.
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Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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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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It’s a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can’t begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
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Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
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Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
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Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
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From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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Everything truly important is washable.
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How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
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You don’t think you’ll live past it and you don’t really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that’s still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.
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I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day you decide to raise fuzzy little gerbils?
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It’s one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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I’ve about decided that’s the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you’re a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.
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I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they’re feeling because that’s how I read the seed catalogs in January.
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Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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I didn’t study writing in school, I studied biology as an undergraduate and graduate student. So I think that I write fiction in the scientific way. I love invention, obviously; I love creation of character. But I do feel very rooted in the real world, even in the way that I create characters.
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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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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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To think is not always to see.
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This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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Don’t wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.
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If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.
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Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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