Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERDon’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history… Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.
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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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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.
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To think is not always to see.
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The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
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Last time I talked to her she didn’t sound like herself. She’s depressed. It’s awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they’re no good.
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In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
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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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As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career – my anti-job – that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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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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there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I’m concerned that’s like accusing a dog of having a bark!
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A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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