Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don’t know what I’m looking for. I just do it.
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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It’s terrible to lose somebody, but it’s also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that’s got to be so much worse.
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When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday.
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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
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The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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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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If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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No human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.
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Insomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That’s what it’s like in my head. The light stays on.
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Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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Maybe life doesn’t get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we’re willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.
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We’re animals. We’re born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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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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