Now I’m starting to think he wasn’t supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERFrom the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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To people who think of themselves as God’s houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.
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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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I prefer to remain anomalous.
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All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.
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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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…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it’s going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas and concerns and even catastrophes that they will think about in a new way.
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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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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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Many of us who aren’t farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.
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Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
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Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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