It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
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.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.
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The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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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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The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
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It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.
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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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You think you’re the foreigner here, and I’m the American, and I just look the other way while the President or somebody sends down this and that . . . to torture people with. But nobody asked my permission, okay? Sometimes I feel like I’m a foreigner, too.
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In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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