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.
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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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 moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings, and a fat white body with black spots running down it like a snowman’s coal buttons.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.
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The thing is, it’s my own fault. I just can’t put up with a person that won’t go out of his way for me. And that’s what a man is. Somebody that won’t go out of his way for you. I bet it says that in the dictionary.
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I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don’t move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.
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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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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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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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Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can’t persist much longer. If it does, then we won’t.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.
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