Barbara Kingsolver Quotes - Page 15

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• Americans who read and think are patriots of the first order. The kind who know enough to roll their eyes whenever anyone tries to claim sole custody of the flag and weild it as a blunt instrument. There are as many ways to love America as there are Americans, and our country needs us all.

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  Country, Eye, Thinking

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• No kind of bomb ever built will extinguish hatred.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Hatred, Bombs, Kind

  "A Pure, High Note of Anguish". articles.latimes.com. September 23, 2001.

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• I don't *ever* write about real people. Art is supposed to be better than that. If you want a slice of life, look out the window.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Art, Real, Writing

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• I've never gotten over high school, to the extent that I'm still a little surprised that my friends want to hang out with me.

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  School, Want, Littles

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “High Tide in Tucson”, p.35, Faber & Faber

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• The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.

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  Generations, Lasts, Next

  Barbara Kingsolver (2012). “Flight Behaviour”, p.151, Faber & Faber

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• Arterial-plaque specials that save minutes now can cost years, later on.

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  Years, Cost, Minutes

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.130, Faber & Faber

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• Downstream is always someone else's up.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.148, Faber & Faber

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• This will be Great Mam's last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden.

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  Spring, Garden, June

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Homeland”, p.8, Faber & Faber

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• ...our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.

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  Moving, Tasks, Slides

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “The Lacuna”, p.226, Faber & Faber

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• There must be limits, somewhere, to the human footprint on this earth. When the whole of the world is reduced to nothing but human product, we will have lost the map that can show us how we got here, and can offer our spirits an answer when we ask why. Surely we are capable of declaring sacred some quarters that we dare not enter or possess.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Environmental, Earth, Sacred

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.87, Faber & Faber

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• Food is the rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is generally the one more likely to make you groan with pleasure.

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  Choices, Arena, Moral

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.22, Faber & Faber

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• It is completely usual for me to get up in the morning, take a look around, and laugh out loud.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Morning, Laughing, Usual

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• We tap our toes to chaste love songs about the silvery moon without recognizing them as hymns to copulation.

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  Song, Moon, Hymns

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “High Tide in Tucson”, p.12, Faber & Faber

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• I believe that the people who survive a cataclysm, rather than those who stand by and analyze it, are nearly always the more credible witnesses to their own history.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Believe, People, Witness

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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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  Mother, Men, Average

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• Ah, the mysterious croak. Here today, gone tomorrow. It's the best reason I can think of to throw open the blinds and risk belief. Right now, this minute, time to move out into the grief and glory. High tide.

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  Grief, Moving, Thinking

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “High Tide in Tucson”, p.198, Faber & Faber

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• If I had to give up my life for anything, it would have to have the resilience of hope, the elation of new literacy, the brilliant life of a field of flowers, the elementary kindness of bread. Nothing short of that. It would have to be something as sure as love.

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  Giving Up, Kindness, Flower

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• It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.

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  Water, Growing, Safe

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• Pure and unblemished souls must taste very bland, with an aftertaste of bitterness.

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  Soul, Taste, Bitterness

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.117, Faber & Faber

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• The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the
  selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see. Presumably the
  unselfish motives will follow as we wise up.

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  Wise, Appreciation, Selfish

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.82, Faber & Faber

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• The way I see it, a person isn't nothing more than a scarecrow... The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they're stuck up there on.

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  Blow, Differences, Way

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “The Bean Trees: A Novel”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• I struggle with confidence, every time. I’m never completely sure I can write another book. Maybe my scope is too grand, my questions too hard, surely readers won’t want to follow me here. A novel is like a cathedral, it knocks you down to size when you enter into it.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Struggle, Book, Writing

  "About Writing". www.kingsolver.com.

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• It's tough to break yourself as news to a town that already knows you.

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  News, Towns, Tough

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “Animal Dreams: A Novel”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• I don't look like who I am.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Who I Am, Looks

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “Animal Dreams: A Novel”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.

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  People, Humanity, Fiction

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