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A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.

Barbara Kingsolver

When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that’s awfully hard not to poke.
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Air Hot Ignorance
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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Book Library Rip
There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.
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Eggs Life Perfect
You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one’s own.
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Ideas Life Mother No Own
A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
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Doe Dog Thinking
Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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Else Happensm Something Thinking
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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Anticipation Hope Life
Many of us who aren’t farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.
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Past Real Secret
It’s one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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Else One Thing Somewhere
Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it’s not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.
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Dream Grows Out Right Separate
Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he’s entitled to joy rather than submission?
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Joy Men Rather Submission
I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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Allies Imperfect Like Me
A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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Busybodies Hazards Thinking
It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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Get One Thing Over
Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.
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Life Lucky Trying
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Family Inspiring Mothers Day

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