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Barbara Kingsolver quotes

American Novelist April 8, 1955

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Barbara Kingsolver quote: "Take one trip overland here and you'll know forever that a..."
Take one trip overland here and you'll know forever that a road in the jungle is a sweet, flat, impossible dream. Barbara Kingsolver
This household is like a pocketful of coins that jingled together for a time, but now have been slapped on a counter to pay a price. The pocket empties out, the coins venture back into the infinite circulation of currency, separate, invisible, and untraceable. Barbara Kingsolver
There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "A million dead butterflies, she said. Sorry as hell they ever..."
A million dead butterflies, she said. Sorry as hell they ever landed here. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "Children can be your heartache. But that doesn't matter, you..."
Children can be your heartache. But that doesn't matter, you have to go on and have them . . . it works out. Barbara Kingsolver
Sometimes history cleaves and for one helpless moment stands still like the pause when the ax splits a log and the two halves rest on end waiting to fall. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary..."
What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness. Barbara Kingsolver
[from an entry by her daughter Camille] Organic produce actually delivers more nutritional bang for the buck. These fruits and vegetables are tougher creatures than those labeled "conventional," precisely because they've had to fight off predators themselves. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry,..."
If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business. Barbara Kingsolver
When he marched to the altar, all the women in smart hats leaned away from the aisle, their long strands of pearls all swaying to one side as if the deck of a ship listed beneath them. Barbara Kingsolver
War is the supreme mathematics problem. It strains our skulls, yet we work out the sums, believing we have pressed the most monstrous quantities into a balanced equation Barbara Kingsolver
How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "I stir in bed and the memories rise out of me like a buzz of..."
...I stir in bed and the memories rise out of me like a buzz of flies from a carcass. I crave to be rid of them... Barbara Kingsolver
I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer's block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don't. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "Time cures you first, and then it kills you."
Time cures you first, and then it kills you. Barbara Kingsolver

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