High Tide in Tucson (1995) (edit title/settings)

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• Dave
• Camille
• Thoreau

Quotes edit see section history

• “The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.”

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• wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need. Let me be a good animal today. Let me dance in the waves of my private tide, the habits of survival and love.

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• Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next, are few enough to fit in a bucket, with room enough left to rattle like brittlebush in a dry wind.

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• In my own worst seasons I’ve come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at a single glorious thing: a flame of red geranium outside my bedroom window. And then another: my daughter in a yellow dress. And another: the perfect outline of a full, dark sphere behind the crescent moon. Until I learned to be in love with my life again. Like a stroke victim retraining new parts of the brain to grasp lost skills, I have taught myself joy, over and over again.

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• “Love of one’s country should be like love of one’s spouse—a give-and-take criticism and affection. Although it is hoped one prefers one’s spouse to other people…one does not prove that one loves one’s wife by battering other women.”

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• Faith, by definition, is impervious to fact. A belief that can be changed by new information was probably a scientific one, not a religious one, and science derives its value from its openness to revision.

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• “If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk”

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• Where does it go when it leaves us, the memory of beautiful, strange things?

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• I didn’t realize that it’s emotion, not event, that creates a dynamic response in the mind of a reader. The artist’s job is to sink a taproot in the reader’s brain that will grow downward and find a path into the reader’s soul and experience, so that some new emotional inflorescence will grow out of it.

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• Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back.

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• “Strength just comes in one brand—you stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you and keep your hair combed.”

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Tucson
• West Africa
• Arizona
• Kentucky
• Haleakala
• Benin
• Hawaii
• New York
• America
• Iraq
• Spain
• United States
• Tenerife
• Cotonou
• Hiroshima
• Sahara

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Barbara Kingsolver (Author)

Other Contributors:

1. Paul Mirocha (Illustrator)

First Edition edit see section history

Classification edit see section history

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• Dewey: 814.54

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• Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › United States › Collections & Readers
• Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › United States › Classics
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( K ) › Kingsolver, Barbara
• Books › Literature & Fiction › History & Criticism › Criticism & Theory
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Classics
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Essays
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Classics