Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
You 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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Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes
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It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
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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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A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
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Everything truly important is washable.
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Sadness is more or less like a head cold – with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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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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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.
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I’m widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I’m not sure I can finish, generating at the edge of my powers. Some people bungee jump; I write.
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