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Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It’s just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.

Barbara Kingsolver

A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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Busybodies Hazards Thinking
If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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Tact Toes Walks
The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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Community People
Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
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Everything Right Sure Travel
Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
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Creativity People Writing
A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
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Book Jumping Magic
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
Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes
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Ada Balance Trying
I prefer to remain anomalous.
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Prefer Remain
I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
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Inspirational Learning Trying
The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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Earth Men Sound
He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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Life Need Rub Soul
… Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, ‘so far from everything?’ When I hear this question over the phone, I’m usually looking out the window at a forest, a running creek, and a vegetable garden, thinking: Define everything.
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Garden Running Thinking
I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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Knows Pretending
I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written.
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Book Reading Writing
Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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Balance Expectations Pajamas

Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It’s just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.

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Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It’s just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.

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