Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERRecall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just turned loose elephantiasis and microes that eat the human cornea. Now I understand, God is not just rooting fo the dollies.
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Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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The bad thing about small-town life is that everybody knows your business…I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
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Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.
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People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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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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Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
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Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man’s skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people’s back yards.
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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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A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn’t do.
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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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Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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