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Barbara Kingsolver quotes

American Novelist April 8, 1955

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Barbara Kingsolver quote: "Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for..."
Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life. Barbara Kingsolver
My life is a pitiful, mechanical thing without a past, like a little wind-up car, ready to run in any direction someone points me. Barbara Kingsolver
Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to mate and predator to prey, a beginning or an end. Every choice is a world made new for the chosen. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past..."
High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "She kept swimming out into life because she hadn't yet found a..."
She kept swimming out into life because she hadn't yet found a rock to stand on. Barbara Kingsolver
Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where they grow. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put..."
If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "Every life is different because you passed this way and..."
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history... Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole..."
Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "He needs to go rub his soul against life."
He needs to go rub his soul against life. Barbara Kingsolver
Most of the girls my age, or even younger, have babies. They appear way too young to be married, till you look in their eyes. Then you'll see it. Their eyes look happy and sad at the same time, but unexcited by anything, shifting easily off to the side as if they've already seen most of what there is. Married eyes. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension."
I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension. Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "Life proceeds, it enrages."
Life proceeds, it enrages. Barbara Kingsolver
All that hurry can blur the truth that life is a zero-sum equation. Every minute I save will get used on something else, possibly no more sublime than staring at the newel post trying to remember what I just ran upstairs for. Barbara Kingsolver
Roscoe and his friends are studying the heat of the fire and the level of oil in the pot with the attitude men take on occasions like this, feeling the weight of their supervisory powers. Sugar smiles. A woman knows she can walk away from a pot to tend something else and the pot will go on boiling; if she couldn't, this world would end at once. Barbara Kingsolver

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