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Barbara Kingsolver quotes

American Novelist April 8, 1955

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Barbara Kingsolver quote: "Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my..."
Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life. Barbara Kingsolver
Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work? Barbara Kingsolver
She is not a bulldog, only a woman pressed into the shape of a small jar, possibly attempting to dance in there. It shows in the way she places a seashell on a window sill, a red-painted chair in the corner: she is practiced in the art of creating a still life and taking up residence inside it. Barbara Kingsolver
When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration. Barbara Kingsolver
Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky. Barbara Kingsolver
When we came home from the movie Hallie cried. Not because of the people who gave up life and limb only to lose Spain to Franco, and not for the ones who came back and were harassed for the rest of their lives for being Reds. The tragedy for Hallie was that there might never be a cause worth risking everything for in our lifetime. Barbara Kingsolver
Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child. Barbara Kingsolver
A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience, but remember, the forest eats itself and lives forever. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "People read books to escape the uncertainties of life."
People read books to escape the uncertainties of life. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no..."
You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own. Barbara Kingsolver
Literature duplicates the experience of living in a way that nothing else can, drawing you so fully into another life that you temporarily forget you have one of your own. That is why you read it, and might even sit up in bed till early dawn, throwing your whole tomorrow out of whack, simply to find out what happens to some people who, you know perfectly well, are made up. Barbara Kingsolver
The death of something living is the price of our own survival, and we pay it again and again. We have no choice. It is the one solemn promise every life on earth is born and bound to keep. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life."
If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life. Barbara Kingsolver
Shoes would interfere with her conversation, for she constantly addresses the ground under her feet. Asking forgiveness. Owning, disowning, recanting, recharting a hateful course of events to make sense of her complicity. We all are, I suppose. Trying to invent our version of the story. All human odes are essentially one, "My life; what I stole from history, and how I live with it. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "God doesn't need to punish us. He grants us a long enough..."
God doesn't need to punish us. He grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves. Barbara Kingsolver

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