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The happiest people are the ones with the most community.

Barbara Kingsolver

Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what’s not in it.
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Empty House Lying
Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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Driving Honk Jesus Love
You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don’t attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.
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Group Needs World
Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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Dog Voice Water
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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Feeling Good Life Throwing
You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
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Crazy People Self
Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Best Work Offer Thinking
Now, see, that’s why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy…the trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn’t agree with you, all that’s left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho.
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Guy Idaho Like Neighbor People
Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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Appreciate Family Stranger
I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Decided Dresses Memorable
I didn’t study writing in school, I studied biology as an undergraduate and graduate student. So I think that I write fiction in the scientific way. I love invention, obviously; I love creation of character. But I do feel very rooted in the real world, even in the way that I create characters.
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Real School Writing
I prefer to remain anomalous.
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Prefer Remain
You think you’re the foreigner here, and I’m the American, and I just look the other way while the President or somebody sends down this and that . . . to torture people with. But nobody asked my permission, okay? Sometimes I feel like I’m a foreigner, too.
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People President Thinking
Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.
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Animal Skills Vegetables
It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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Get One Thing Over

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