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There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.

Barbara Kingsolver

It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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Changed Frightening Love Things
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
…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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Moving Slides Tasks
Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don’t; but we wear it all the same
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Fortune How Know Same Wear
I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they’re feeling because that’s how I read the seed catalogs in January.
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Eye Hands Heart
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Differences Father Tasks
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
Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven.
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Animal Song Vegetables
That was when we smelled the rain. It was so strong it seemed like more than just a smell. When we stretched out our hands we could practically feel it rising up from the ground. I don’t know how a person could ever describe that scent.
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Hands Rain Strong
I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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Knows Pretending
I’m of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
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Library Mind Soul
Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
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Dream Inspiring Running
Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he’s entitled to joy rather than submission?
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Joy Men Rather Submission
This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If the shark comes they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten.
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Heart Mean Moving
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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