…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERI’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.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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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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I prefer to remain anomalous.
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From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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That was when we smelled the rain. It was so strong it seemed like more than just a smell. When we stretched out our hands we could practically feel it rising up from the ground. I don’t know how a person could ever describe that scent.
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She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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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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But kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run.
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Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
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What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.
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I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer’s block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don’t. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.
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Everything truly important is washable.
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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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