Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERVengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Sadness is more or less like a head cold – with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday.
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Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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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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It’s what you do that makes your soul.
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Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If the shark comes they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten.
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Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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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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Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
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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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You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one’s own.
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Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they’re afraid to plant themselves?
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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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