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The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.

Barbara Kingsolver

There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.
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Eggs Life Perfect
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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Book Library Rip
He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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Life Need Rub Soul
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
Maybe life doesn’t get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we’re willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.
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Grows Willing Wonder
I’ve about decided that’s the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you’re a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.
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Feelings People Sweaters
You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.
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Love People Running Trust
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
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Empathy Fiction Stranger
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
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Different Life Way
She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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Alone Inhumanity Once
But kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run.
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Job Mother Running
In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune.
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Long Passion Running
I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
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Decided Dresses Memorable
A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
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Doe Dog Thinking

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