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From Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver
- Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
- There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other.…
- 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. And the most you can do is live…
- After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.
- Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for…
- I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against…
- I know how people are, with their habits of mind. Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean as snow...I know…
- Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the…
- Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it's not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.
- Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure…
- But still, I’d be darned if I was going to be one of those Americans who stomp around Italy barking commands in ever-louder English. I…
- Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.
- ...trust in Creation which is made fresh daily and doesn’t suffer in translation. This God does not work in especially mysterious ways. The sun here…
- It feels strange to me to be living in a box, hiding from the steadying influence of the moon; wearing the hide of a cow,…
- What we lose in our great human exodus from the land is a rooted sense, as deep and intangible as religious faith, of why we…
- I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence. I can understand a wrathful God…
- We came from Bethlehem, Georgia bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle.
- Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next,…
- Shoes would interfere with her conversation, for she constantly addresses the ground under her feet. Asking forgiveness. Owning, disowning, recanting, recharting a hateful course of…
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