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Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?

Barbara Kingsolver

The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see. Presumably the unselfish motives will follow as we wise up.
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Appreciation Selfish Wise
My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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Nightmares Nothing Stuck Worst
Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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Childhood Transition Unnoticed
I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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Farmers Farms Virginia
What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.
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Book Fall Rocks
Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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Bird Nests Safe
I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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Knows Pretending
Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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Balance Expectations Pajamas
For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Enterprise Life Threatening
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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Feeling Good Life Throwing
The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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Rise Above Rising Talking
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
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
People ask without wanting to know.
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Ask Knows People
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’m of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
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Library Mind Soul

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