Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERIn the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career – my anti-job – that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Everything truly important is washable.
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How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.
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She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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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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People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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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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The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings, and a fat white body with black spots running down it like a snowman’s coal buttons.
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history… Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.
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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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From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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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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