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Barbara Kingsolver quotes

American Novelist April 8, 1955

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I never put real people into my fiction -- I can't see the slightest point of that, when I have the alternative of inventing utterly subservient slave-people, whose every detail of appearance and behavior I can bend to serve my theme and plot. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill..."
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "Where you'd be wearing out the knees of your trousers, sir,..."
Where you'd be wearing out the knees of your trousers, sir, they just have to go ahead and wear out their knees! Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "You could allow a gentleman the privacy of his piss."
You could allow a gentleman the privacy of his piss. Barbara Kingsolver
No, you shouldn't have come here. But you are here, so yes, you should be here. There are more words in the world then yes and no. Barbara Kingsolver
I had just dropped out of medicine in my first year of residency, a few months shy of becoming a licensed M.D. I'd discovered there was something serious, mainly a matter of nerve and perhaps empathy, that stood in my way. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "Even the bells from the churches have a conversation, all..."
Even the bells from the churches have a conversation, all ringing at once. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he's..."
Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he's entitled to joy rather than submission? Barbara Kingsolver
Looking out on a clean plank of planet earth, we can get shaken right down to the bone by the bronze-eyed possibility of lives that are not our own. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "You know reviewers, they are the wind in their own sails."
You know reviewers, they are the wind in their own sails. Barbara Kingsolver
A novel has to entertain -- that's the contract with the reader: you give me ten hours and I'll give you a reason to turn every page. Barbara Kingsolver
The arrogance of the able-bodied is staggering. Yes, maybe we'd like to be able to get places quickly, and carry things in both hands, but only because we have to keep up with the rest of you. We would rather be just like us, and have that be all right. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "If you never stepped on anybody's toes, you never been for a..."
If you never stepped on anybody's toes, you never been for a walk. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "For scientists, reality is not optional."
For scientists, reality is not optional. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "I was a skeleton with flesh and clothes and thoughts."
I was a skeleton with flesh and clothes and thoughts. Barbara Kingsolver

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