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When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that’s awfully hard not to poke.

Barbara Kingsolver

In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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Life Thing World Wrong
In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career – my anti-job – that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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Careers Jobs Stress
People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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Book Life People Uncertainty
How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.
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Bird Book Want
The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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Important Pieces Stories
She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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Found Rocks Swimming
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
If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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Dream Sweet Want
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
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
Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and get ready for the world to assume every word is true.
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Book Doubt Writing
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
My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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Nightmares Nothing Stuck Worst
Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
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Betrayal Heads Perfect Tails
Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
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Creativity People 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

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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