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Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.

Barbara Kingsolver

The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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Important Pieces Stories
It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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Get One Thing Over
Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Grew Grew Up People
A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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Flower Making Love Way
I never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.
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Political Thinking Writing
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
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Adults Children People
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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Feeling Good Life Throwing
…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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Moving Slides Tasks
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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Blow Blue Sky
It’s terrible to lose somebody, but it’s also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that’s got to be so much worse.
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People Terrible Thinking
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
But kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run.
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Job Mother Running
A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn’t do.
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Lifetime Terror Thinking
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history… Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.
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Alive Different Views
Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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Cost Greed Money

Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.

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