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What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.

Barbara Kingsolver

Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It’s just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.
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Animal Love Making Photography
I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
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Government Treats Way
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
…prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or a heart or a seed curled into itself in the ground could resist welcoming it back when it came.
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Heart Summer Wings
Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you’ll behave to other people.
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Empathy Literature People
Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they’re afraid to plant themselves?
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Feet Feminist Girl
We agreed with him in principal – we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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Children Littles Magic
Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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Else Happensm Something Thinking
You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
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might Next Splits
Now I’m starting to think he wasn’t supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
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Doorways Starting Thinking
Insomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That’s what it’s like in my head. The light stays on.
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Doors Insomnia Light
Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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Always Downstream Else Someone
This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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Believe Country States Thinking United
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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Dream Hope Life Lesson
This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If the shark comes they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten.
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Heart Mean Moving
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

What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.

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