What did Barbara Kingsolver mean by: Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization. - Barbara Kingsolver Novelist · USA Copy
+ Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least. Explain Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Barbara Kingsolver, Code, Family, Frustrating, 0 - Barbara Kingsolver Novelist · USA
+ Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals. Feraz Zeid, September 9, 2023December 24, 2023, Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Miracle, Vegetables, 0 - Barbara Kingsolver Novelist · USA
+ To think is not always to see. Feraz Zeid, September 12, 2023December 26, 2023, Barbara Kingsolver, 0 - Barbara Kingsolver Novelist · USA
+ I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension. Feraz Zeid, December 27, 2023January 10, 2024, Barbara Kingsolver, Comprehension, Ridiculous, 0 - Barbara Kingsolver Novelist · USA
+ The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do. Feraz Zeid, December 27, 2023January 10, 2024, Barbara Kingsolver, Earth, Sound, 0 - Barbara Kingsolver Novelist · USA
+ restraint equals indulgence Feraz Zeid, October 6, 2023December 26, 2023, Barbara Kingsolver, Indulgence, Restraint, 0 - Barbara Kingsolver Novelist · USA
+ It’s tough to break yourself as news to a town that already knows you. Feraz Zeid, December 27, 2023January 10, 2024, Barbara Kingsolver, News, Tough, Towns, 0 - Barbara Kingsolver Novelist · USA
+ If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life. Feraz Zeid, October 8, 2023December 26, 2023, Barbara Kingsolver, Dream, Sweet, 0 - Barbara Kingsolver Novelist · USA
One is either judge or accused. The judge sits, the accused stands. Live on your feet. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization. - Lincoln Steffens Journalist · USA
What can we expect from nations still less advanced in civilization than the Greeks? - Jean-Baptiste Say Economist · France
Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
As morality seems to have supplanted civilization, I move on to the spiritual. - Jeff Koons Artist · USA
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. - Jeremy Bentham Philosopher · England
