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High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.

Barbara Kingsolver

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
Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can’t persist much longer. If it does, then we won’t.
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Environmental Feelings Ideas
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
You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
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Crazy People Self
If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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Heart Important Remember
It’s one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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Else One Thing Somewhere
I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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Farmers Farms Virginia
Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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Cost Greed Money
I prefer to remain anomalous.
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Prefer Remain
Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
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Notebook Silence Writing
If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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Dream Sweet Want
All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.
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Politician Promise War
If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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Tact Toes Walks
The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
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Artist Novelist Writing
Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.
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Animal Skills Vegetables
I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day you decide to raise fuzzy little gerbils?
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Pet Python Television

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