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

If we can’t, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
– Barbara Kingsolver

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  1. The room looks as if a giant dog after a large lunch of food, socks, paints, trousers and pencils, walked into that room and vomited everywhere. – Barbara Kingsolver
  2. God can turn stones into bread, and a sinner can turn bread into stones; the bread of life into the stone of stumbling. – Thomas Watson
  3. Ask for work. If they don’t give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread. – Emma Goldman
  4. Men who try to understand the world without the help of children are like men who try to bake bread without the help of yeast. – Gavriel Savit
  5. Your mind is your guide! With a clever mind, you will have a life full of light! Improve your mind, improve your real savior! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  6. When you meet the real problems of life, think of the real lessons of life for the real lessons of life are in the real problems of life – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  7. The substance of grief is not imaginary. It’s as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things it can kill. – Barbara Kingsolver
  8. The question of bread for myself is a material question, but the question of bread for my neighbor is a spiritual question. – Nikolai A Berdyaev
  9. A slice of bread eaten is a million times more nourishing than a loaf of bread imagined. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  10. Taggle was absorbed in the meat pie. -˜It’s covered in BREAD,’ he huffed. -˜What fool has covered MEAT with BREAD? – Erin Bow
  11. The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one. – Erma Bombeck
  12. Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh ????er, the greatest of feasts. – James Beard
  13. I like bread, and I like ????er – but I like bread with ????er best. – Sarah Weiner
  14. For most of us a job is bread and ????er and for most of others its just bread and ????er. – Aniruddha Sastikar
  15. Take the broken pieces of your life, bake a master cake out of it. Don’t stand still like a lake; keep flowing like a stream! – Israelmore Ayivor
  16. Bea stared at the pencils as if they were enemies. – Carla H Krueger
  17. There’s no need to sharpen your pencils any more. Even the dull ones can make a mark. – Ze Frank
  18. You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one’s own. – Barbara Kingsolver
  19. That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art – panem et Circen. – Friedrich Nietzsche
  20. Muslim store clerks should sell alcohol and pork. Christian bakers should bake gay wedding cakes. Everyone should do their ????ing job. – TJ Kirk
  21. Rhys was hot enough to bake cookies on. – Dani Harper
  22. People read books to escape the uncertainties of life. – Barbara Kingsolver
  23. How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them. – Barbara Kingsolver
  24. She never says gracias because life is made of survival not grace, she says, and servants are paid to bring what they’re asked. – Barbara Kingsolver
  25. Some of life’s greatest calls were answered not by the head but by the body. – Barbara Kingsolver
  26. The type of person you are is usually reflected in your business. To improve your business, first improve yourself. – Idowu Koyenikan
  27. You must believe to see, see to do, do to improve, and improve consistently to win; therefore, believing is the key to winning. – Orrin Woodward
  28. Thinking is no more or no less than asking questions. To improve your thinking, improve the quality of the questions you ask. – Stephanie Mbida
  29. The value is not in the art, whether there are more artists or less artists, the value depends on it. – Dada Bhagwan
  30. Artists are cannibals. We consume other artists, and they become part of us-”flesh and bone-”only to be spewed out again in our own works. – Siri Hustvedt
  31. Artists must remain in a state of awe to remain artists. – Marty Rubin
  32. If the Lord hasn’t got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that’s his business. – Barbara Kingsolver
  33. 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. – Barbara Kingsolver
  34. You can’t replace people you love with other people-¦But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love. – Barbara Kingsolver
  35. The flowers were beaten down, their bent-over heads bejeweled with diamond droplets like earring on sad, rich widows – Barbara Kingsolver
  36. What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness. – Barbara Kingsolver
  37. Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly. – Barbara Kingsolver
  38. Why does a person spend money on a stamp to spout bile at a stranger? – Barbara Kingsolver
  39. The truth needs so little rehearsal. – Barbara Kingsolver
  40. This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market. – Barbara Kingsolver

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