Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver

American novelist, essayist and poet

Lived from: 1955 -

Category: Writers (Contemporary) | Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 8 april 1955

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  • The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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  • There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.
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  • There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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  • There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.
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  • To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!
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  • To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.
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  • Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
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  • We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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  • What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.
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  • What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
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  • What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
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  • 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.
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  • Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.
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  • Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they're afraid to plant themselves?
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  • Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life.
    Animal Dreams
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