To think is not always to see.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThe truth needs so little rehearsal.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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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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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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This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If the shark comes they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten.
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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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There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.
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A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
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You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one’s own.
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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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I’m of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
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The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
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There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, ‘There now, hang on, you’ll get over it.’ Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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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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High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
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The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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