Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
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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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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I’m of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
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I prefer to remain anomalous.
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We’re surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
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Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
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There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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I don’t bring expectations to any of my books. I don’t tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
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It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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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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Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed.
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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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If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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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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