What did Barbara Kingsolver mean by: In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can. - Barbara Kingsolver Novelist · USA Copy
+ Perhaps growing up meant we put our knives away and feigned ignorance of the damage. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Barbara Kingsolver, Growing Up, Ignorance, Knives, 0 - Barbara Kingsolver Novelist · USA
+ Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Barbara Kingsolver, Numbers, Revenge, 0 - Barbara Kingsolver Novelist · USA
+ Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Barbara Kingsolver, Determine, 0 - Barbara Kingsolver Novelist · USA
+ you can’t really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece Feraz Zeid, December 27, 2023January 10, 2024, Barbara Kingsolver, Missing, Persons, Pieces, 0 - Barbara Kingsolver Novelist · USA
+ Nine-tenths of human law is about possession. Feraz Zeid, October 6, 2023December 26, 2023, Barbara Kingsolver, Law, Possession, 0 - Barbara Kingsolver Novelist · USA
+ Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin. Feraz Zeid, December 27, 2023January 10, 2024, Barbara Kingsolver, Criminal Mind, Memories, 0 - Barbara Kingsolver Novelist · USA
+ As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant. Feraz Zeid, December 27, 2023January 10, 2024, Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Plant, 0 - Barbara Kingsolver Novelist · USA
+ What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness. Feraz Zeid, December 27, 2023January 10, 2024, Barbara Kingsolver, Kindness, Simple, 0 - Barbara Kingsolver Novelist · USA
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France