It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
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
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
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The bad thing about small-town life is that everybody knows your business…I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
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This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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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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I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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…prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or a heart or a seed curled into itself in the ground could resist welcoming it back when it came.
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To people who think of themselves as God’s houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.
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…nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
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The substance of grief is not imaginary. It’s as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill.
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