Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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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Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can’t even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
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Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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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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You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
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People ask without wanting to know.
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Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they’re afraid to plant themselves?
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We agreed with him in principal – we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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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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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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Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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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 the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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