People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERMemories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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Everything truly important is washable.
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…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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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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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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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career – my anti-job – that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
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It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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It’s what you do that makes your soul.
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To people who think of themselves as God’s houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.
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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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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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