Quotes By Barbara Kingsolver

Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.

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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.

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I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.

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It's surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.

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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

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People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.

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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

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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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