Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don’t; but we wear it all the same
BARBARA KINGSOLVER… Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, ‘so far from everything?’ When I hear this question over the phone, I’m usually looking out the window at a forest, a running creek, and a vegetable garden, thinking: Define everything.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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You don’t think you’ll live past it and you don’t really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that’s still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.
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Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
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For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
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Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.
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Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.
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It’s what you do that makes your soul.
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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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I never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.
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A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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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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Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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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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