Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERYou can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don’t attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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The bad thing about small-town life is that everybody knows your business…I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
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the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
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Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.
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He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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I’m of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
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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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For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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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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That was when we smelled the rain. It was so strong it seemed like more than just a smell. When we stretched out our hands we could practically feel it rising up from the ground. I don’t know how a person could ever describe that scent.
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Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and get ready for the world to assume every word is true.
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Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
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