Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
BARBARA KINGSOLVEREvery life is different because you passed this way and touched history… Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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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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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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Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
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I prefer to remain anomalous.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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It’s what you do that makes your soul.
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There are some who’d hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think’s been too lucky.
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Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
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Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven.
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I’ve about decided that’s the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you’re a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.
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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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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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