A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
BARBARA KINGSOLVEROh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms.
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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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We agreed with him in principal – we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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If we can’t, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
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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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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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People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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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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Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
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Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he’s entitled to joy rather than submission?
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Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see, be, or believe. It’s more like conversation, raising new questions and inspiring you to answer them for yourself.
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the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
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