Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERI don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don’t; but we wear it all the same
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Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down.” – Mrs. Brown
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Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can’t persist much longer. If it does, then we won’t.
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…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn’t it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.
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Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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organization is the religion of the single parent.
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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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The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
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I’m widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I’m not sure I can finish, generating at the edge of my powers. Some people bungee jump; I write.
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He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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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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A sound-bite culture can’t discuss science very well. Exactly what we’re losing when we reduce biodiversity, the causes and consequences of global warming-these traumas can’t be adequately summarized in an evening news wrap-up.
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