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

Barbara Kingsolver

For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Enterprise Life Threatening
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 you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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Tact Toes Walks
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
…nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
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Kindness Momentous Shoulder World
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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Anticipation Hope Life
Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms.
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Kings Mind Poison
Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
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Dirt might Today
To people who think of themselves as God’s houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.
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Land Stupid Thinking
Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.
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Animal Skills Vegetables
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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Feeling Good Life Throwing
You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
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might Next Splits
When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that’s awfully hard not to poke.
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Air Hot Ignorance
I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Grew Grew Up People
There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.
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Eggs Life Perfect
Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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Knives Memories Novelist

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