I’ve about decided that’s the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you’re a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERGrowing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can’t even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
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It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.
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Now I’m starting to think he wasn’t supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
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I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written.
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Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.
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The thing is, it’s my own fault. I just can’t put up with a person that won’t go out of his way for me. And that’s what a man is. Somebody that won’t go out of his way for you. I bet it says that in the dictionary.
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the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
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Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms.
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Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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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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I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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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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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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The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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