There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, ‘There now, hang on, you’ll get over it.’ Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERI 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.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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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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I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.
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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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If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed.
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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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Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he’s entitled to joy rather than submission?
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The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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Everything truly important is washable.
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Don’t wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.
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The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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