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High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.

Barbara Kingsolver

I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Best Work Offer Thinking
Maybe life doesn’t get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we’re willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.
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Grows Willing Wonder
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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Honesty Needs Truth
The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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Important Pieces Stories
I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
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Inspirational Learning Trying
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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Anticipation Hope Life
You think you’re the foreigner here, and I’m the American, and I just look the other way while the President or somebody sends down this and that . . . to torture people with. But nobody asked my permission, okay? Sometimes I feel like I’m a foreigner, too.
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People President Thinking
I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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Farmers Farms Virginia
If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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Heart Important Remember
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.
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Meaningful Pain Spiritual
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
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Adults Children People
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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Dream Hope Life Lesson
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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Feeling Good Life Throwing
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Differences Father Tasks
Don’t wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.
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Ethics Waiting Work Writing
Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they’re afraid to plant themselves?
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Feet Feminist Girl

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