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

Barbara Kingsolver

Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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Childhood Transition Unnoticed
Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It’s just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.
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Animal Love Making Photography
There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, ‘There now, hang on, you’ll get over it.’ Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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Cancer Depression Sadness
If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
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Jobs Standing Stink
Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It’s the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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Doe Numbers Revenge
Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it’s going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas and concerns and even catastrophes that they will think about in a new way.
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Real Thinking Writing
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
I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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Farmers Farms Virginia
Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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Charity Needs Want
Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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Middle Night Wonder
Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.
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Automobile Body Feet Human Two
The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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Balance Injury Success
What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.
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Book Fall Rocks
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
Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes
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Ada Balance Trying

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

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