If it’s important, your heart remembers.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERNow, see, that’s why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy…the trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn’t agree with you, all that’s left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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The substance of grief is not imaginary. It’s as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill.
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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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A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
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My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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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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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history… Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.
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What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
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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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