People ask without wanting to know.
Barbara KingsolverMots clés people life-and-living the-lacuna
Being a peacock is not the only way to hide yourself, Frida. A pigeon can hide.
Barbara KingsolverMots clés the-lacuna
The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don't know.
Barbara KingsolverMots clés the-lacuna
She is not a bulldog, only a woman pressed into the shape of a small jar, possibly attempting to dance in there. It shows in the way she places a seashell on a window sill, a red-painted chair in the corner: she is practiced in the art of creating a still life and taking up residence inside it.
Barbara KingsolverMots clés the-lacuna
Love. But the pure kind of love. I don't think that comes very often. Most of us are ordinary. If we do anything great, it's only so we'll be loved ourselves. Maybey just for ten minutes.
Barbara KingsolverMots clés the-lacuna
But this boy in a French or British factory, standing in his leather overall welding the casing on a metal bomb; what can he see? That thing will fly through the air, fall hundreds of miles away, and kill boys in leather overalls in a German factory. the reports will roar victory or defeat, and boys will never know how alike their lives have been.
Barbara KingsolverMots clés the-lacuna
Outside in the sun the Holy Mother stood on her pedestal in the garden, sorry but unsympathetic. The usual position of mothers.
Barbara KingsolverMots clés sympathy barbara-kingsolver mothers the-lacuna
...when the public nerve is aroused, the most impressive capacity of man is his skill for lying.
Barbara KingsolverMots clés lying media barbara-kingsolver the-lacuna
Most of them don't know what communism is, could not pick it out of a lineup. They only know what anticommunism is. The two are practically unrelated.
Barbara KingsolverMots clés barbara-kingsolver communism mccarthyism the-lacuna anticommunism dies-committee
Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
Barbara KingsolverMots clés barbara-kingsolver luck the-lacuna lucky-people
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