From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
BARBARA KINGSOLVEREvery betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.
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To think is not always to see.
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I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
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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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It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.
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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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If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.
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I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.
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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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It’s one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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It is harrowing for me to try to teach 20-year-old students, who earnestly want to improve their writing. The best I can think to tell them is: Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.
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