The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
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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This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
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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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Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don’t; but we wear it all the same
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You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
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From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.
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You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don’t attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.
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Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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It’s what you do that makes your soul.
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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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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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As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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