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As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.

Barbara Kingsolver

Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Different Life Way
Everything truly important is washable.
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Housework Important
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Differences Father Tasks
What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.
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Book Fall Rocks
You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
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Crazy People Self
In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career – my anti-job – that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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Careers Jobs Stress
Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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Middle Night Wonder
If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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Heart Important Remember
Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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Determine Used World
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
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
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
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
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Adults Children People
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
The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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Community People
In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune.
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Long Passion Running

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