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Letter "B" » Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
«Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.»
«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.»
Author: Barbara Kingsolver
(Activist, Writer)
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breakfast, die down, floss, flossing, get in, gums, old person, stupid person, teeth
«It wasn't a matter of courage or dreams, but something a whole lot simpler. A pilot would call it ground orientation. I'd spent a long time circling above the clouds, looking for life, while Hallie was living it.»
«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.»
«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.»
«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.»
«Patriotism threatens free speech with death. In other words, the American flag stands for intimidation, censorship, violence, bigotry, sexism, homophobia and shoving the Constitution through a paper shredder. Who are we calling terrorists?»
«Close the door. Write with _no one_ looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.»
«It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.»
«We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.»
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