Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERYou see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one’s own.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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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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Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he’s entitled to joy rather than submission?
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It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
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Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
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Height isn’t something you can have and just let be, like nice teeth or naturally curly hair. People have this idea you have to put it to use, playing basketball, for example, or observing the weather up there. If you are a girl, they feel a particular need to point your height out to you, as if you might not have noticed.
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Many of us who aren’t farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.
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I’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.
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It’s what you do that makes your soul.
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
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It’s one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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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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School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.
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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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