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Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “What life can I live that will let me breathe in and out and love somebody or something and not run off screaming into the woods?”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “If it’s important, your heart remembers.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Morning always comes.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct – crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Science doesn’t tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “It’s one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It’s everyone’s, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin...”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “After ‘The Poisonwood Bible’ was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Many of us who aren’t farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “The happiest people are the ones with the most community.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Oh, that river of wishes, the slippery crocodile dream of it, how it might have carried my body down through all the glittering sand bars to the sea.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “If you’re writing, you’re a writer. If you’re talking about it or thinking about it, I’m not so sure. Writing is ninety-eight percent work and two percent magic.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “The march of human progress seemed mainly a matter of getting over that initial shock of being here.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it’s true, but you haven’t told anyone yet.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember. Think of the vine that curls from the small square plot that was once my heart. That is the only marker you need. Move on. Walk forward into the light.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you’ll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can’t stand it.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see, be, or believe. It’s more like conversation, raising new questions and moving you to answer them for yourself.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “The wrong words are impossible when there are no words.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “I have my own sheep and I literally sheer the sheep and knot sweaters for friends and family from scratch.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It’s a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “It’s as if cats live in a separate universe that takes up the same space as ours, but is full of fascinating things like mice or sparrows or special TV programs that we can’t see.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “There but for the grace of serotonin go the rest of us.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Love weighs nothing.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Lies are infinite in number, and the truth so small and singular.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “It’s terrible to lose somebody, but it’s also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that’s got to be so much worse.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Do you know, I spent the first half of my life avoiding motherhood and tires, and now I’m counting them as blessings?”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “A human being can be good or bad or right or wrong, maybe. But how can you say a person is illegal? You just can’t. That’s all there is to it.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “We came from Bethlehem, Georgia bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest’s conscience, but remember, the forest eats itself and lives forever.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Plot comes first. The plot is the archictecture of your novel. You wouldn’t build a house without a plan. If I wrote without a plot, it would just be a pile of bricks. Characters are your servants. They must serve your plot.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past.”
Barbara Kingsolver Quote: “I thought I’d had a pretty hard life. But I keep finding out that life can be hard in ways I never knew about.”
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