I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERFriends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
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Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can’t even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
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If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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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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Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
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A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune.
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Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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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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You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
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What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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organization is the religion of the single parent.
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