Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just turned loose elephantiasis and microes that eat the human cornea. Now I understand, God is not just rooting fo the dollies.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERPain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
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The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn’t it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.
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It is harrowing for me to try to teach 20-year-old students, who earnestly want to improve their writing. The best I can think to tell them is: Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.
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The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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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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People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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We agreed with him in principal – we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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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
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Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven.
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Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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