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

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
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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Perfect Time Writing
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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Anticipation Hope Life
I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
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Decided Dresses Memorable
For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Enterprise Life Threatening
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
He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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Life Need Rub Soul
The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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Balance Injury Success
Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven.
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Animal Song Vegetables
Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.
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Change Forgiveness Moving
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
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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Feeling Good Life Throwing
All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.
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Politician Promise War
It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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Get One Thing Over
I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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Life Out Views Work
Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.
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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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