Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERPeople read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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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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All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.
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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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Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
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You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
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The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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If we can’t, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
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Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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There are some who’d hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think’s been too lucky.
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Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you’ll behave to other people.
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Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.
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Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.
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You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don’t attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.
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