We agreed with him in principal – we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERI had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
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Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
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If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer’s block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don’t. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.
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I know I’m a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
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People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
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No human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.
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I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
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