| It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. |
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- Barbara Kingsolver |
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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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- Barbara Kingsolver |
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| Terms like that, "Humane Society," are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent. |
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- Barbara Kingsolver |
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| The truth needs so little rehearsal. |
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- Barbara Kingsolver |
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| The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away. |
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- Barbara Kingsolver |
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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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- Barbara Kingsolver |
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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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- Barbara Kingsolver |
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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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- Barbara Kingsolver |
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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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- Barbara Kingsolver |
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| It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time. |
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- Barbara Kingsolver |
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| Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin. |
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- Barbara Kingsolver |
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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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- Barbara Kingsolver |
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| Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off. |
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- Barbara Kingsolver |
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