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I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.

Barbara Kingsolver

Sadness is more or less like a head cold – with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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Cancer Depression Sadness
She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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Alone Inhumanity Once
To people who think of themselves as God’s houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.
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Land Stupid Thinking
She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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Found Rocks Swimming
The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see. Presumably the unselfish motives will follow as we wise up.
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Appreciation Selfish Wise
Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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Heart Important Remember
It’s what you do that makes your soul.
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Dream Rabbits Soul
People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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Errors People Sin
Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they’re afraid to plant themselves?
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Feet Feminist Girl
It’s terrible to lose somebody, but it’s also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that’s got to be so much worse.
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People Terrible Thinking
If we can’t, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
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Art Bread Real
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can’t even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
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Fountain People Thinking Want
Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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Doe Numbers Revenge
Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what’s not in it.
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Empty House Lying
It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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Get One Thing Over

I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.

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