What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERI never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
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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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Height isn’t something you can have and just let be, like nice teeth or naturally curly hair. People have this idea you have to put it to use, playing basketball, for example, or observing the weather up there. If you are a girl, they feel a particular need to point your height out to you, as if you might not have noticed.
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I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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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.
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Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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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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Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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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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People ask without wanting to know.
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If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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I don’t bring expectations to any of my books. I don’t tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
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A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
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