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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

Barbara Kingsolver

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 never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.
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Political Thinking Writing
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
Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it’s not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.
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Dream Grows Out Right Separate
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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Heart Moving Pain
School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.
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Education Order School
If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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Heart Important Remember
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
It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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Changed Frightening Love Things
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.
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Meaningful Pain Spiritual
The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
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Artist Novelist Writing
Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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Charity Needs Want
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
She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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Found Rocks Swimming
Sugar, it’s no parade but you’ll get down the street one way or another, so you’d just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
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Pace Sugar Way
It’s one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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Else One Thing Somewhere

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

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