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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThe talkers are rising above the thinkers.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.
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In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune.
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Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.
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Insomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That’s what it’s like in my head. The light stays on.
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Everything truly important is washable.
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Don’t wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.
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The substance of grief is not imaginary. It’s as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill.
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You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
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A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
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Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see. Presumably the unselfish motives will follow as we wise up.
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organization is the religion of the single parent.
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We’re surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
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Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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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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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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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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Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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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.
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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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Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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