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Barbara Kingsolver Inspirational Quotes (255)

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Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just turned loose elephantiasis and microes that eat the human cornea. Now I understand, God is not just rooting fo the dollies.
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The past is all we know of the future.
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The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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A woman without a man -- a condition of 'manlessness' -- is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife.
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Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.
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If you ask me, when something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make it the best home you can.
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A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn't do.
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If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
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A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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He was getting that look he gets, oh boy, like Here comes Moses tromping down off of Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck your life.
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I believe with all my heart in delivering on my contract with my readers. They've got plenty of other things to do, so I had better give them a reason to turn every one of these 550 pages. This is my promise: I solemnly swear I'll make you laugh out loud at least once, cry a little in private, and burn whatever you left on the stove.
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People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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The gods you do not pay are the ones that can curse you best.
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it's the thing you fear most that walks beside you all the time.
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Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.
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Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.
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Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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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. But most won't even stand close to the blade. I'm one of those. We don't bend anything.
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He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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In Kilanga, people knew nothing of things they might have had - a Frigidaire? a washer-dryer combination? Really, they'd sooner imagine a tree that could pull up its feet and go bake bread. It didn't occur to them to feel sorry for themselves.
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I write every moment that is humanly possible. I write every day and every night. The only discipline I lack is the discipline is to quit.
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