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The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.

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
Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
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Notebook Silence Writing
Height isn’t something you can have and just let be, like nice teeth or naturally curly hair. People have this idea you have to put it to use, playing basketball, for example, or observing the weather up there. If you are a girl, they feel a particular need to point your height out to you, as if you might not have noticed.
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Basketball Girl Nice
People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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Errors People Sin
Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they’re afraid to plant themselves?
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Feet Feminist Girl
Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
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Dirt might Today
As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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Animal Plant Thinking
We’re surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
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Believe Literature Should
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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Children Littles Magic
A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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Flower Making Love Way
Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn’t it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.
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Civilization Kids Two
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
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Differences Father Tasks
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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Animal Love Making Photography
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can’t even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
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Fountain People Thinking Want
I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written.
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Book Reading Writing

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