I prefer to remain anomalous.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Now I’m starting to think he wasn’t supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
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One of the very first things I figured out about life…is that it’s better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you’re hopeful, you have more fun.
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Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
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Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
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Insomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That’s what it’s like in my head. The light stays on.
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My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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The thing is, it’s my own fault. I just can’t put up with a person that won’t go out of his way for me. And that’s what a man is. Somebody that won’t go out of his way for you. I bet it says that in the dictionary.
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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn’t do.
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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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Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and get ready for the world to assume every word is true.
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I concentrate on character, theme, language, structure, voice. It actually surprises me that no matter what I write, people declare it “intently political.” I’m just writing about the world I know, as it is. Wounds and griefs included.
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