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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

Barbara Kingsolver

…prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or a heart or a seed curled into itself in the ground could resist welcoming it back when it came.
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Heart Summer Wings
Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it’s not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.
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Dream Grows Out Right Separate
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
Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history… Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.
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Alive Different Views
Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you’ll behave to other people.
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Empathy Literature People
Don’t wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.
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Ethics Waiting Work Writing
There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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Always Body Fenceline Stories
High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
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Fashion Past Salad
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Family Inspiring Mothers Day
Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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Middle Night Wonder
Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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Cure First Kill
For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Enterprise Life Threatening
Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
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Notebook Silence Writing
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
Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.
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Life Lucky Trying

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

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