I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don’t move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.
BARBARA KINGSOLVEREvery life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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People ask without wanting to know.
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The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I’m concerned that’s like accusing a dog of having a bark!
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I’m of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
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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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If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
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Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
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You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
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People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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… 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.
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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
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