You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThere is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, ‘There now, hang on, you’ll get over it.’ Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.
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I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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We’re animals. We’re born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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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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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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Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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… Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, ‘so far from everything?’ When I hear this question over the phone, I’m usually looking out the window at a forest, a running creek, and a vegetable garden, thinking: Define everything.
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Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.
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Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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Everything truly important is washable.
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…prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or a heart or a seed curled into itself in the ground could resist welcoming it back when it came.
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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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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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You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.
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Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms.
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