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Thing Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver
- Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me,…
- It's the same struggle for each of us, and the same path out: the utterly simple, infinitely wise, ultimately defiant act of loving one thing…
- The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brain and in your hands, wherever you go.
- Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
- 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 funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is…
- 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…
- It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
- The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
- 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,…
- Morality is not a large, constructed *thing* you have or have not, but simply a capacity. Something you carry with you in your brain and…
- I've about decided that's the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you're a practical item, with a use,…
- For if there is any single thing that everyone hopes for most dearly, it must be this: that the youngest outlive the oldest.
- My life is a pitiful, mechanical thing without a past, like a little wind-up car, ready to run in any direction someone points me.
- Wake up now, look alive, for here is a day off work just to praise Creation: the turkey, the squash, and the corn, these things…
- You can curse the dead or pray for them, but don't expect them to do a thing for you. They're far too interested in watching…
- 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…
- The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.
- It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
- The thing is, it's my own fault. I just can't put up with a person that won't go out of his way for me. And…
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