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Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.

Barbara Kingsolver

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 prefer to remain anomalous.
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Prefer Remain
I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Best Work Offer Thinking
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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Anticipation Hope Life
I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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Farmers Farms Virginia
I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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Life Out Views Work
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
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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Dream Hope Life Lesson
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
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
I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
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Decided Dresses Memorable
A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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Flower Making Love Way
Now, see, that’s why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy…the trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn’t agree with you, all that’s left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho.
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Guy Idaho Like Neighbor People
From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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Fallen Tree Trouble
When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that’s awfully hard not to poke.
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Air Hot Ignorance
I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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Knows Pretending

Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.

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