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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.
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There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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People ask without wanting to know.
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don’t know what I’m looking for. I just do it.
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Sugar, it’s no parade but you’ll get down the street one way or another, so you’d just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
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As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes
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Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you’re contagious.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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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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Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
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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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