He needs to go rub his soul against life.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERIt’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.
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The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.
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Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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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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Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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Don’t wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.
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There are some who’d hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think’s been too lucky.
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She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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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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Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it’s not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.
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How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
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Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he’s entitled to joy rather than submission?
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