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If we can’t, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.

Barbara Kingsolver

Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don’t; but we wear it all the same
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Fortune How Know Same Wear
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
People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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Errors People Sin
If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
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Jobs Standing Stink
There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.
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Believe Grief Track
A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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Flower Making Love Way
The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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Important Knows Persons
Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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Knives Memories Novelist
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
…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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Moving Slides Tasks
The substance of grief is not imaginary. It’s as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill.
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Air Both Grief Real Thing
Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
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Everything Right Sure Travel
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
I’m widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I’m not sure I can finish, generating at the edge of my powers. Some people bungee jump; I write.
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New People Something Writing
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
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Family Inspiring Mothers Day

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