Barbara Kingsolver Quotes

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• What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive. You keep…
• Memory runs along deep, fixed channels in the brain, like electricity along its conduits; only a cataclysm can make the electrons rear up in shock…
• You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.
• Our plans are small and somewhat absurd.
• If every U.S. citizen ate just one meal a week (any meal) composed of locally and organically raised meats and produce, we would reduce our…
• Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
• My way of finding a place in this world is to write one.
• What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker in life, generally…
• Beginning a novel is always hard. It feels like going nowhere. I always have to write at least 100 pages that go into the trashcan…
• 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.
• He had senile dementia and liked to go outside naked, but he could still do two things perfectly: win at checkers and write out prescriptions.
• That's how it is: some people are content to wait till you ask, while others jump right in with the whole story.
• When I look out the window, I exhale a prayer of thanks for the color green, for my children's safety, for the simple acts of…
• With all due respect for the wondrous ways people have invented to amuse themselves and one another on paved surfaces, I find that this exodus…
• The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
• We agreed with him in principal - we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
• Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
• Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.
• Gilbert has established herself as a straight-up storyteller who dares us into adventures of worldly discovery, and this novel stands as a winning next act.…
• You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don't attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to…

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