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Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver

I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.

Barbara Kingsolver
Source: The Poisonwood Bible
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That's how it is: some people are content to wait till you ask, while others jump right in with the whole story.

Barbara Kingsolver
Source: Animal Dreams
Contributed by: Barbara. More quotes added by ingebrita from all sources
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We tap our toes to chaste love songs about the silvery moon without recognizing them as hymns to copulation.

Barbara Kingsolver
Source: High Tide in Tucson
Contributed by: Barbara. More quotes added by ingebrita from all sources
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative of truth but not its twin.

Barbara Kingsolver
Source: Animal Dreams
Contributed by: Barbara. More quotes added by ingebrita from all sources
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We agreed with him in principal - we were little scientists, born and bred.  But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.

Barbara Kingsolver
Source: Animal Dreams
Contributed by: Barbara. More quotes added by ingebrita from all sources
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.

Barbara Kingsolver
Source: The Poisonwood Bible
Contributed by: Barbara. More quotes added by ingebrita from all sources
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Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.  They are what we call civilization.

Barbara Kingsolver
Source: The Poisonwood Bible
Contributed by: Barbara. More quotes added by ingebrita from all sources
More quotes about: illusion
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Awareness is everything. ... People worry a lot more about the eternity after their deaths than the eternity that happened before they were born.  But it's the same amount of infinity, rolling out in all directions from where we stand.

Barbara Kingsolver
Source: Animal Dreams
Contributed by: Barbara. More quotes added by ingebrita from all sources
More quotes about: awareness, eternity, infinity, people
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"With all due respect for the wondrous ways people have invented to amuse themselves and one another on paved surfaces, I find that this exodus from the land makes me unspeakably sad. I think of the children who will never know, intuitively, that a flower is a plant's way of making love, or what silence sounds like, or that trees breathe out what we breathe in."

Barbara Kingsolver
Source: Small Wonder
Contributed by: (Stacey) Rosina Newton. More quotes added by Rosi from all sources
More quotes about: city, nature, children, trees
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I don’t look like who I am.

Barbara Kingsolver
Source: Animal Dreams
Contributed by: DiamondLil. More quotes added by DiamondLil from this | all sources
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