As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
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As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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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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Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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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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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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A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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organization is the religion of the single parent.
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There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.
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He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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I’m widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I’m not sure I can finish, generating at the edge of my powers. Some people bungee jump; I write.
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