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Barbara Kingsolver quotes about past

American Novelist April 8, 1955

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Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one. You know what Hester told me when we were working the sheep one time? She said it's no good to complain about your flock, because it's the put-together of all your past choices. Barbara Kingsolver
Many of us who aren't farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard. Barbara Kingsolver
A lifetime of people, unconfirmed by their living presences, or photographs or descriptions in a notebook, can only skulk in the corners like ghosts. They shift like chimeras. Careful words of warning reverse themselves like truth and newspaper stories, becoming their own opposites. An imperfectly remembered life is a useless treachery. Every day, more fragments of the past roll around heavily in the chambers of an empty brain, shedding bits of color, a sentence or a fragrance, something that... Barbara Kingsolver
An imperfectly remembered life is a useless treachery. Every day, more fragments of the past roll around heavily in the chambers of an empty brain, shedding bits of color, a sentence or a fragrance, something that changes and then disappears. It drops like a stone to the bottom of the cave. 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
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: "Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past"
Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "The past is all we know of the future."
The past is all we know of the future. Barbara Kingsolver

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