The truth needs so little rehearsal.

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High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad.

Barbara Kingsolver in Life Without Go-Go Boots
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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.

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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

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It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

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We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.

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What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.

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