Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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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How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.
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This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If the shark comes they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten.
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I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
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there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I’m concerned that’s like accusing a dog of having a bark!
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A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
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Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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Now I’m starting to think he wasn’t supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
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I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.
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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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The bad thing about small-town life is that everybody knows your business…I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
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Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
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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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If we can’t, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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