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Choice is a signature of our species.
Diane Ackerman
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Diane Ackerman
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 7
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Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful.
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In the winter, I enjoy cross-country skiing and raising orchids and amaryllises. If I could grow tropical flowers as perennials, I would, especially hibiscus and mandavilla.
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Writer's block is a luxury most people with deadlines don't have.
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The knowing, I told myself, is only a vapor of the mind, and yet it can wreck havok with one's sanity.
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The daftest logic brings such sweet unrest.
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People search for love as if it were a city lost beneath the desert dunes, where pleasure is the law, the streets are lined with brocade cushions, and the sun never sets.
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Life becomes a lot simpler for a creative person when he or she finds the routine that works best. ... get in the habit of going through the routine every day, and on some of those days, you're going to be lucky and have done some good work. ... Go to your study, close the door, invent your confidence.
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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.
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It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
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Adult bats don't weigh much. They're mainly fur and appetite.
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