Barbara Kingsolver Quotes About Past
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Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past
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High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
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You don't think you'll live past it and you don't really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that's still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.
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The past is all we know of the future.
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Many of us who aren't farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.
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My life is a pitiful, mechanical thing without a past, like a little wind-up car, ready to run in any direction someone points me.
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Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one. You know what Hester told me when we were working the sheep one time? She said it's no good to complain about your flock, because it's the put-together of all your past choices.
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