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Barbara Kingsolver è una scrittrice e poetessa statunitense.

✵ 8. Aprile 1955
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Barbara Kingsolver: Frasi in inglese

“Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.”

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Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Origine: The Poisonwood Bible

“There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.”

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Barbara Kingsolver The Bean Trees

Origine: The Bean Trees

“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

“She kept swimming out into life because she hadn't yet found a rock to stand on.”

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Barbara Kingsolver Animal Dreams

Origine: Animal Dreams

“Everything you're sure is right can be wrong in another place.”

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Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Origine: The Poisonwood Bible

“Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.”

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Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Origine: The Poisonwood Bible

“But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.”

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Barbara Kingsolver Pigs in Heaven

Origine: Pigs in Heaven

“Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've only found sorrow.”

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Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Origine: The Poisonwood Bible

“I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.”

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Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Origine: The Poisonwood Bible

“God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.”

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Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Origine: The Poisonwood Bible

“What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness.”

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Barbara Kingsolver Animal Dreams

Origine: Animal Dreams

“I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book.”

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Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Origine: The Poisonwood Bible

“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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Barbara Kingsolver

“The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.”

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Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Origine: The Poisonwood Bible

“There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but you haven't told anyone yet.”

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Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Origine: The Poisonwood Bible

“A mother's body remembers her babies-the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has it's own entreaties to body and soul.”

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Barbara Kingsolver

“In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.”

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Barbara Kingsolver The Bean Trees

Origine: The Bean Trees

“Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.”

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Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Origine: The Poisonwood Bible

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

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Barbara Kingsolver Animal Dreams

Origine: Animal Dreams

“The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.”

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Barbara Kingsolver libro The Lacuna

Origine: The Lacuna

“It is true that I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I can tell.”

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Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Origine: The Poisonwood Bible

“If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.”

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Barbara Kingsolver

“Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.”

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Barbara Kingsolver

Origine: Homeland and Other Stories

“Her body moved with the frankness that comes from solitary habits. But solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot; every choice is a world made new for the chosen. All secrets are witnessed.”

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Barbara Kingsolver libro Prodigal Summer

Origine: Prodigal Summer (2000).

“Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.”

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Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Origine: The Poisonwood Bible

“It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.”

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Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Origine: The Poisonwood Bible

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