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Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.

Barbara Kingsolver

The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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Important Knows Persons
Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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Middle Night Wonder
Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.
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Cities Firsts Groups
It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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Growing Safe Water
If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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Dresses Expensive Memorable
Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
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Everything Right Sure Travel
You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.
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Kids Sorry Two
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
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
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Empathy Eye Looks
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
The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
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Animal Average Vacation
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history… Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.
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Alive Different Views
Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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Driving Honk Jesus Love
…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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Moving Slides Tasks
I’m widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I’m not sure I can finish, generating at the edge of my powers. Some people bungee jump; I write.
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New People Something Writing

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