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Barbara Kingsolver quotes

American Novelist April 8, 1955

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Barbara Kingsolver quote: "I had hoped for a pinch of metaphor."
I had hoped for a pinch of metaphor. Barbara Kingsolver
Even the vendors sitting on stools around the periphery work steadily at connection, nodding at potential buyers, like a sewing machine prodding its needle into the cloth. Barbara Kingsolver
Corn syrup and added fats have been outed as major ingredients in fast food, but they hide out in packaged foods too, even presumed-innocent ones like crackers. Barbara Kingsolver
I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that. Barbara Kingsolver
In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune. Barbara Kingsolver
But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political..."
I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "The clock gulps softly, eating second whole while she waits..."
The clock gulps softly, eating second whole while she waits... Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads..."
Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "Lies are infinite in number, and the truth so small and singular."
Lies are infinite in number, and the truth so small and singular. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "It is true that I do not speak as well as I can think. But..."
It is true that I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I can tell. Barbara Kingsolver
Sept 15 1930 at the independence festival of the school of cretin?"At the head of the table by the bowl of pomegranates, Senora Bartolome had put a note: Take only one, our Lord Jesus is watching!.A second note appeared at the foot of the table beside the sugared almonds: Take all you want, Jesus is looking at the pomegranates. Barbara Kingsolver
GM [genetically modified] plants are virtually everywhere in the US food chain, but don't have to be labeled, and aren't. Industry lobbyists intend to keep it that way. Barbara Kingsolver
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 out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer. Barbara Kingsolver
Bitter words normally evaporate with the moisture of breath, after a quarrel. In order to become permanent, they require transcribers, reporters, complicit black hearts. Barbara Kingsolver

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