No human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERFor Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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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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Height isn’t something you can have and just let be, like nice teeth or naturally curly hair. People have this idea you have to put it to use, playing basketball, for example, or observing the weather up there. If you are a girl, they feel a particular need to point your height out to you, as if you might not have noticed.
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the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
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Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer’s long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn’t touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn’t stop.
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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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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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Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn’t it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.
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Last time I talked to her she didn’t sound like herself. She’s depressed. It’s awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they’re no good.
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The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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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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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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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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