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I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.

Barbara Kingsolver

We agreed with him in principal – we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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Children Littles Magic
I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
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Government Treats Way
Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
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Intention Peacefulness Purpose
If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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Heart Important Remember
If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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Dresses Expensive Memorable
The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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Important Knows Persons
It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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Homecoming Memories Mindfulness
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 know I’m a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
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Novelist Rare Person Writing
People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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Errors People Sin
This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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Believe Country States Thinking United
Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
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Notebook Silence Writing
No human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.
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Before Human Unnoticed World
I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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Knows Pretending
Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
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

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