It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERA flower is a plant’s way of making love.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.
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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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A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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I prefer to remain anomalous.
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I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
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I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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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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It’s one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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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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My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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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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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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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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