Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes
BARBARA KINGSOLVERPeople ask without wanting to know.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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The substance of grief is not imaginary. It’s as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill.
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Now I’m starting to think he wasn’t supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
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For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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Many of us who aren’t farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.
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We agreed with him in principal – we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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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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My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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organization is the religion of the single parent.
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history… Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.
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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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Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it’s going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas and concerns and even catastrophes that they will think about in a new way.
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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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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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the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
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