Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man’s skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people’s back yards.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERDon’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can’t even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
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I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day you decide to raise fuzzy little gerbils?
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The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don’t know what I’m looking for. I just do it.
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Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.
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A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
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People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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They all attended Hester’s church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.
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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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I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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