Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERWhat keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.
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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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Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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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 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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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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Many of us who aren’t farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.
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How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
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It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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I’m of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
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I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don’t move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.
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Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It’s just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.
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