Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
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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Everything truly important is washable.
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Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.
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Many of us who aren’t farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.
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All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.
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There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.
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I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
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The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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I never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.
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We’re animals. We’re born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don’t move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.
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Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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