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Barbara Kingsolver

Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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Dog Voice Water
If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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Dresses Expensive Memorable
I prefer to remain anomalous.
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Prefer Remain
Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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Cure First Kill
But kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run.
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Job Mother Running
If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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Heart Important Remember
Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
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Looks Patience World
I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Best Work Offer Thinking
In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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Life Thing World Wrong
I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
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Government Treats Way
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Empathy Fiction Stranger
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
Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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Knives Memories Novelist
It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
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Enough People Wells
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
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

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