There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThe truth needs so little rehearsal.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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You think you’re the foreigner here, and I’m the American, and I just look the other way while the President or somebody sends down this and that . . . to torture people with. But nobody asked my permission, okay? Sometimes I feel like I’m a foreigner, too.
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…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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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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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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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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They all attended Hester’s church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.
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It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.
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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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Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it’s not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.
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Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.
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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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Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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