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Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don’t; but we wear it all the same

Barbara Kingsolver

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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Blow Differences Way
This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If the shark comes they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten.
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Heart Mean Moving
No human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.
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Before Human Unnoticed World
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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Honesty Needs Truth
Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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Day Diagonal Human Nature
Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don’t; but we wear it all the same
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Fortune How Know Same Wear
Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Kings Mind Poison
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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Anticipation Hope Life
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Empathy Fiction Stranger
I prefer to remain anomalous.
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Prefer Remain
The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings, and a fat white body with black spots running down it like a snowman’s coal buttons.
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Black Eye Geometric Running Shape White
I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
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Decided Dresses Memorable
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
Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
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Everything Right Sure Travel
Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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Appreciate Family Stranger
Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables

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