QUOTES by Barbara Kingsolver
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"When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am."
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"Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President."
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"Art does not exist only to entertain -- but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for the truth."
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"I tell you what I envy about people in love - I'd love it if someone knew me I mean really knew me. What I like what I'm afraid of what kind of toothpaste I use." - Rose Morgan"
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"Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world."
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"Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work ... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work."
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"The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations."
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"Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is."
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"If you ask me, when something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make it the best home you can."
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"How is it right to slip free of an old skin and walk away from the scene of the crime? We came, we saw, we took away and we left behind, we must be allowed our anguish and our regrets."
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"Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back."
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"The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do."
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"You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own."
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"Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!"
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"What we lose in our great human exodus from the land is a rooted sense, as deep and intangible as religious faith, of why we need to hold on to the wild and beautiful places that once surrounded us."
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"Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed."
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"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. The most you can do is live inside that hope, running down its hallways, touching the walls on both sides."
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"Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?"
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"I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written."
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"You can curse the dead or pray for them, but don't expect them to do a thing for you. They're far too interested in watching us, to see what in heaven's name we will do next."
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"When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine. Pigs in Heaven"
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"A breeze shook rain out of new leaves onto their hair, but in their pursuit of eternity they never noticed the chill."
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"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."
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"Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say."
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"Maybe he's been in Africa so long he has forgotten that we Christians have our own system of marriage, and it is called Monotony."
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"You can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece"
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"We came from Bethlehem, Georgia bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle."
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"Poor Congo, barefoot bride of men who took her jewels and promised the Kingdom."
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"Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history."
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"For if there is any single thing that everyone hopes for most dearly, it must be this: that the youngest outlive the oldest."
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"He was getting that look he gets, oh boy, like Here comes Moses tromping down off of Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck your life."
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"Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing."
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"Hunger of the body is altogether different from the shallow, daily hunger of the belly. Those who have known this kind of hunger cannot entirely love, ever again, those who have not."
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"The conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners"
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"...nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness."
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