Now, 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.
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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organization is the religion of the single parent.
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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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Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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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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High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
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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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The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
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Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
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Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
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Maybe life doesn’t get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we’re willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.
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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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