People ask without wanting to know.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERPeople ask without wanting to know.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.
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Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you’ll behave to other people.
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If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see. Presumably the unselfish motives will follow as we wise up.
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The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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That was when we smelled the rain. It was so strong it seemed like more than just a smell. When we stretched out our hands we could practically feel it rising up from the ground. I don’t know how a person could ever describe that scent.
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This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark.
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Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer’s long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn’t touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn’t stop.
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School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.
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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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Don’t wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.
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Now, see, that’s why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy…the trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn’t agree with you, all that’s left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho.
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