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If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.

Barbara Kingsolver

There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, ‘There now, hang on, you’ll get over it.’ Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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Cancer Depression Sadness
Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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Day Diagonal Human Nature
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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Book Library Rip
We’re animals. We’re born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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Animal Born Mammals
A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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Flower Making Love Way
The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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Important Pieces Stories
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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Honesty Needs Truth
As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer’s long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn’t touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn’t stop.
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Dark Grief Moving
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
It’s one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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Else One Thing Somewhere
The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings, and a fat white body with black spots running down it like a snowman’s coal buttons.
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Black Eye Geometric Running Shape White
Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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Childhood Transition Unnoticed
It’s what you do that makes your soul.
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Dream Rabbits Soul
People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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Errors People Sin
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
He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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Life Need Rub Soul

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