The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERThe moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings, and a fat white body with black spots running down it like a snowman’s coal buttons.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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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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You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.
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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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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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Everything truly important is washable.
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Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It’s the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.
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Sadness is more or less like a head cold – with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.
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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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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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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 most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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