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Barbara Kingsolver quotes

American Novelist April 8, 1955

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Barbara Kingsolver quote: "What a knot of history one mistake can become."
What a knot of history one mistake can become. Barbara Kingsolver
Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people. Barbara Kingsolver
Let me claim that Africa and I kept company for a while and then parted ways as if we were both party to relations with a failed outcome. Or say I was afflicted with Africa like a bout of a rare disease from which I have not managed a full recovery. Barbara Kingsolver
My prior experience with young men was to hear them swear 'Christ almighty in the craphouse!' at any dress with too many buttons. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "My future was mapped in negatives. Next year, I could be..."
My future was mapped in negatives. Next year, I could be anywhere but here. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing..."
The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do. Barbara Kingsolver
Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down." - Mrs. Brown Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals."
Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "It's what you do that makes your soul."
It's what you do that makes your soul. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "The most important thing about a person is always the thing..."
The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "It's monstrous, what one person will do to another."
It's monstrous, what one person will do to another. Barbara Kingsolver
Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation. Barbara Kingsolver
A novel! Why do you say this won't liberate anyone? Where does any man go to be free, whether he is poor or rich or even in prison? To Dostoyevsky! To Gogol! Barbara Kingsolver
..."You make cheese yourself," she repeated reverently. "You are a real housewife." It has taken me decades to get here, but I took that as a compliment. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "The sting of a fly, the Congolese say, can launch the end of..."
The sting of a fly, the Congolese say, can launch the end of the world. How simply things begin. Barbara Kingsolver

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