The thing is, it’s my own fault. I just can’t put up with a person that won’t go out of his way for me. And that’s what a man is. Somebody that won’t go out of his way for you. I bet it says that in the dictionary.
BARBARA KINGSOLVEREven feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written.
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To think is not always to see.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career – my anti-job – that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it’s not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.
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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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Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it’s going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas and concerns and even catastrophes that they will think about in a new way.
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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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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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She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
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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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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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As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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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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