If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERA flower is a plant’s way of making love.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
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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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High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
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Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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They all attended Hester’s church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
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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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Now, see, that’s why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy…the trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn’t agree with you, all that’s left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho.
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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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The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see. Presumably the unselfish motives will follow as we wise up.
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You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
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The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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