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To think is not always to see.

Barbara Kingsolver

Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you’re contagious.
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Contagious Done Sleep
It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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Growing Safe Water
The way I see it, a person isn’t nothing more than a scarecrow… The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they’re stuck up there on.
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Blow Differences Way
A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
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Doe Dog Thinking
I didn’t study writing in school, I studied biology as an undergraduate and graduate student. So I think that I write fiction in the scientific way. I love invention, obviously; I love creation of character. But I do feel very rooted in the real world, even in the way that I create characters.
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Real School Writing
You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
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might Next Splits
Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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Circumstances Given Turns
Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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Dresses Expensive Memorable
You think you’re the foreigner here, and I’m the American, and I just look the other way while the President or somebody sends down this and that . . . to torture people with. But nobody asked my permission, okay? Sometimes I feel like I’m a foreigner, too.
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People President Thinking
I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they’re feeling because that’s how I read the seed catalogs in January.
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Eye Hands Heart
In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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Life Thing World Wrong
Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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Appreciate Family Stranger
There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, ‘There now, hang on, you’ll get over it.’ Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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Cancer Depression Sadness
You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.
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Kids Sorry Two
There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.
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Home Moon Stars

To think is not always to see.

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