Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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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Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven.
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This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.
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It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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…prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or a heart or a seed curled into itself in the ground could resist welcoming it back when it came.
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Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.
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The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday.
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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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A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn’t do.
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The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
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If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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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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I know I’m a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
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