Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERFinally, cooking is good citizenship. It’s the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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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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I don’t bring expectations to any of my books. I don’t tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
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People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.
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The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.
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Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It’s just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.
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Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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I prefer to remain anomalous.
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What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
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