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Barbara Kingsolver quotes

American Novelist April 8, 1955

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There are always more questions. Science as a process is never complete. It is not a foot race, with a finish line.... People will always be waiting at a particular finish line: journalists with their cameras, impatient crowds eager to call the race, astounded to see the scientists approach, pass the mark, and keep running. It's a common misunderstanding, he said. They conclude there was no race. As long as we won't commit to knowing everything, the presumption is we know nothing. Barbara Kingsolver
Come on, people. Doesn't anybody remember how to take a big old knife, whack open a pumpkin, scrape out the seeds, and bake it? We can carve a face onto it, but can't draw and quarter it? Are we not a nation known worldwide for our cultural zest for blowing up flesh, on movie and video screens and/or armed conflict? Are we in actual fact too squeamish to stab a large knife into a pumpkin? Wait till our enemies find out. Barbara Kingsolver
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 was going to be one of those Americans who traversed Italy with my forehead knit in concentration, divining wordsw from their Latin roots and answering by wedging French cognates into Italian pronunciations spliced onto a standard Spanish verb conjugation. Barbara Kingsolver
And fairly enough she thought, for that was the way of the world. A road was to be driven upon. The candy dish was there to be eaten, money in the bank got spent, people claimed whatever they could get their hands on. Wasn't that more or less automatic? For a human being to do any less seemed impossible. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "For if there is any single thing that everyone hopes for most..."
For if there is any single thing that everyone hopes for most dearly, it must be this: that the youngest outlive the oldest. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook..."
Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please. Barbara Kingsolver
Food culture in the United States has long been cast as the property of a privileged class. It is nothing of the kind. Culture is the property of a species. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It's..."
Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It's peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose. Barbara Kingsolver
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 it's feet and go bake bread. It didn't occur to them to feel sorry for themselves. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past"
Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "Don't wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers..."
Don't wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write. Barbara Kingsolver
The radio is at the root of the evil, their rule is: No silence, ever. When anything happens, the commentator has to speak without a moment's pause for gathering wisdom. Falsehood and inanity are preferable to silence. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have..."
Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica. Barbara Kingsolver
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain. Barbara Kingsolver
Michael Pollan: "The industrialization--and dehumanization--of American animal farming is a relatively new, evitable, and local phenomenon: no other country raises and slaughters its food animals quite as intensively or as brutally as we do."U.S. consumers may take our pick of reasons to be wary of the resulting product: growth hormones, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, unhealthy cholesterol composition, deadly E. coli strains, fuel consumption, concentration of manure into toxic waste lagoons,... Barbara Kingsolver

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