I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
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One of the very first things I figured out about life…is that it’s better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you’re hopeful, you have more fun.
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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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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
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Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
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Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.
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Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down.” – Mrs. Brown
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The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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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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She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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