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Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don’t; but we wear it all the same

Barbara Kingsolver

I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
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Decided Dresses Memorable
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Differences Father Tasks
A sound-bite culture can’t discuss science very well. Exactly what we’re losing when we reduce biodiversity, the causes and consequences of global warming-these traumas can’t be adequately summarized in an evening news wrap-up.
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Causes Evening Sound
Insomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That’s what it’s like in my head. The light stays on.
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Doors Insomnia Light
Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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Appreciate Family Stranger
I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer’s block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don’t. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.
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Block Jobs Waiting
I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Best Work Offer Thinking
It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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Changed Frightening Love Things
Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you’re contagious.
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Contagious Done Sleep
there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I’m concerned that’s like accusing a dog of having a bark!
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Dog People Political
Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed.
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Blow Blue Sky
People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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Book Life People Uncertainty
Sugar, it’s no parade but you’ll get down the street one way or another, so you’d just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
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Pace Sugar Way
Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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Determine Used World
I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don’t move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.
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Mountain Moving Winning
Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
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Everything Right Sure Travel
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
…nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
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Kindness Momentous Shoulder World
There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.
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Home Moon Stars
Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
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Betrayal Heads Perfect Tails
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
You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don’t attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.
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Group Needs World
I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they’re feeling because that’s how I read the seed catalogs in January.
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Eye Hands Heart
Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don’t know what I’m looking for. I just do it.
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Airplane Staring Steps
It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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Everything Freedom Give Great Love
Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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Childhood Transition Unnoticed
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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Heart Moving Pain

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