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I've seen how you can't learn anything when you're trying to look like the smartest person in the room.

I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
– 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. I don’t have to be the smartest person in the room, I just have to be in the room. – RADelmonico
  3. I may not be the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick the smartest people to do business with and size them up very fast. – Ziad K Abdelnour
  4. I never learn anything from listening to myself. – Barbara Kingsolver
  5. If you’re the smartest person in the room, you might wanna switch rooms. – Sabrina Newby
  6. …whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. And peace will be with you. – Barbara Kingsolver
  7. God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much. – Barbara Kingsolver
  8. Altogether he was one in whom no man would have seen anything to admire, and in whom no woman would have seen anything to dislike. – Thomas Hardy
  9. Why does a person spend money on a stamp to spout bile at a stranger? – Barbara Kingsolver
  10. No guest rooms.- I shake my head resolutely. -œI want to be in a room room. A lived-in room. – Lauren Oliver
  11. You cry in your room. I cry in my room. Mom cries in Mom’s room. And in the morning everyone pretends like they never cried once in their life. – Natasha Friend
  12. Seek to be the smartest in a room, not the loudest. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  13. I was used to being the smartest guy in the room, and then God dropped me in a place that was well beyond me. It was painfully awesome. – Matt Chandler
  14. Listen until you’re the smartest.Learn until you’re the wisest.Live until you’re the merriest.Love until you’re the kindest. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  15. Time cures you first, and then it kills you. – Barbara Kingsolver
  16. If the Lord hasn’t got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that’s his business. – Barbara Kingsolver
  17. Science doesn’t tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is. – Barbara Kingsolver
  18. There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it’s true, but you haven’t told anyone yet. – Barbara Kingsolver
  19. 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
  20. If we can’t, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread. – Barbara Kingsolver
  21. Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least. – Barbara Kingsolver
  22. To live is to change, to die one hundred deaths. – Kingsolver Barbara
  23. Mother, you can still hold hold on but forgive, forgive and give for long as long as we both shall live, I forgive you, Mother. – Barbara Kingsolver
  24. 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
  25. The flowers were beaten down, their bent-over heads bejeweled with diamond droplets like earring on sad, rich widows – Barbara Kingsolver
  26. What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness. – Barbara Kingsolver
  27. Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly. – Barbara Kingsolver
  28. …I stir in bed and the memories rise out of me like a buzz of flies from a carcass. I crave to be rid of them… – Barbara Kingsolver
  29. The truth needs so little rehearsal. – Barbara Kingsolver
  30. But kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run. – Barbara Kingsolver
  31. Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. – Barbara Kingsolver
  32. Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else. – Barbara Kingsolver
  33. This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market. – Barbara Kingsolver
  34. The giant beech next door intends to shiver off every hair of its pelt. – Barbara Kingsolver
  35. …animals behaved with purpose, it seemed. Unlike people. – Barbara Kingsolver
  36. Like many human beings, he took the least sign of conversation as his cue to make noise. – Barbara Kingsolver
  37. 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
  38. She has changed in this way that motherhood changes you, so that you forget you ever had time for small things like despising the color pink. – Barbara Kingsolver
  39. This will be Great Mam’s last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden. – Barbara Kingsolver
  40. Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa. – Barbara Kingsolver

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