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Barbara Kingsolver

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
Many of us who aren’t farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.
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Past Real Secret
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
The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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Rise Above Rising Talking
She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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Alone Inhumanity Once
There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.
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Believe Grief Track
Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.
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Believe Heart Kids
It is harrowing for me to try to teach 20-year-old students, who earnestly want to improve their writing. The best I can think to tell them is: Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.
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Thinking Wise Writing
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
I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Best Work Offer Thinking
They all attended Hester’s church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.
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Church Pyramid Scheme
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
I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Grew Grew Up People
Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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Knives Memories Novelist
He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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Life Need Rub Soul
I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
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Government Treats Way

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