As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThe truth needs so little rehearsal.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
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Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It’s the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.
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I prefer to remain anomalous.
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Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what’s not in it.
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.
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People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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The thing is, it’s my own fault. I just can’t put up with a person that won’t go out of his way for me. And that’s what a man is. Somebody that won’t go out of his way for you. I bet it says that in the dictionary.
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Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
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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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When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that’s awfully hard not to poke.
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