Barbara Kingsolver Quotes

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• No reporter worth his buttons will let the facts intrude on a good story.
• You know reviewers, they are the wind in their own sails.
• Mexico admits you through an arched stone orifice into the tree-filled courtyard of its heart, where a dog pisses against a wall and a waiter…
• In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at…
• What we end up calling history is a kind of knife, slicing down through time. A few people are hard enough to bend its edge.…
• Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.
• The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.
• How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
• I lost a child," she said, meeting Lusa's eyes directly. "I thought I wouldn't live through it. But you do. You learn to love the…
• This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are…
• It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
• He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am…
• Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what's not in it.
• Mother could go for one year without food, but not one day without her lip sticks.
• Silence has many advantages. When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their…
• 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…
• Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
• The past is all we know of the future.
• Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
• Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he's entitled to joy rather than submission?

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