People ask without wanting to know.
BARBARA KINGSOLVERMemories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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The thing is, it’s my own fault. I just can’t put up with a person that won’t go out of his way for me. And that’s what a man is. Somebody that won’t go out of his way for you. I bet it says that in the dictionary.
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The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
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Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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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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Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
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If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and get ready for the world to assume every word is true.
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They all attended Hester’s church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.
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It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
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Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they’re afraid to plant themselves?
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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 considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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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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From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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