People ask without wanting to know.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
Recall 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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People ask without wanting to know.
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I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
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To think is not always to see.
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I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.
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Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.
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![Barbara Kingsolver Quote - Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn’t it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/codi-gives-you-the-willies-doesnt-it-the-thought-o.jpg)
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One of the very first things I figured out about life…is that it’s better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you’re hopeful, you have more fun.
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Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
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Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what’s not in it.
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