Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you’ll behave to other people.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERWill you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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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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The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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Sugar, it’s no parade but you’ll get down the street one way or another, so you’d just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
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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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A sound-bite culture can’t discuss science very well. Exactly what we’re losing when we reduce biodiversity, the causes and consequences of global warming-these traumas can’t be adequately summarized in an evening news wrap-up.
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Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he’s entitled to joy rather than submission?
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Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
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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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Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
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Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just turned loose elephantiasis and microes that eat the human cornea. Now I understand, God is not just rooting fo the dollies.
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I don’t bring expectations to any of my books. I don’t tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
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A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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No human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.
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