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Hard Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver
- 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…
- The arc of history is longer than human vision. It bends. We abolished slavery, we granted universal suffrage. We have done hard things before. And…
- Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I…
- I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are…
- He warned Mother not to flout God's Will by expecting too much of us. "Sending a girl to college is like pouring water in your…
- When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.
- 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.…
- God is frightful, God is great--you pick. I choose this: God is in the details, the completely unnecessary miracles sometimes tossed up as stars to…
- Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It's peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
- Insomnia’s different,†I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door?…
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- Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me… — Lucille Ball