The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERWe agreed with him in principal – we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Everything truly important is washable.
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I didn’t study writing in school, I studied biology as an undergraduate and graduate student. So I think that I write fiction in the scientific way. I love invention, obviously; I love creation of character. But I do feel very rooted in the real world, even in the way that I create characters.
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I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer’s block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don’t. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.
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Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
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There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.
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The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It’s just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.
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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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Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.
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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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Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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I never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.
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You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.
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