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Barbara Kingsolver Quotes

«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.»
«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.»
Author: Barbara Kingsolver (Activist, Writer) | About: Hope, Living | Keywords: do in, figure, figure out
«Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.»
«It's surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time»
Author: Barbara Kingsolver (Activist, Writer) | About: Memory | Keywords: surprising, unnoticed
«Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.»
«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.»
«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.»
«Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.»
«The truth needs so little rehearsal.»
Author: Barbara Kingsolver (Activist, Writer) | About: Truth | Keywords: rehearsal, rehearsals
«Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.»

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