Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you’ll behave to other people.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERI 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.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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The way I see it, a person isn’t nothing more than a scarecrow… The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they’re stuck up there on.
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For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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I know I’m a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
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I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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To people who think of themselves as God’s houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.
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A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
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Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written.
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High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
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Everything truly important is washable.
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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
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