Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
BARBARA KINGSOLVEREvery life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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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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If we can’t, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
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Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.
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I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
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You think you’re the foreigner here, and I’m the American, and I just look the other way while the President or somebody sends down this and that . . . to torture people with. But nobody asked my permission, okay? Sometimes I feel like I’m a foreigner, too.
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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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Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven.
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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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It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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