You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
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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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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If we can’t, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
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Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down.” – Mrs. Brown
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Last time I talked to her she didn’t sound like herself. She’s depressed. It’s awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they’re no good.
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The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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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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Finally, 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.
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Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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I’ve about decided that’s the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you’re a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.
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Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
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…nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
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When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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