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It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.

Barbara Kingsolver

What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
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might Reality Space
Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven.
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Animal Song Vegetables
It’s what you do that makes your soul.
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Dream Rabbits Soul
I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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Farmers Farms Virginia
Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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Determine Used World
This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark.
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Dark Mouth Scent
If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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Dream Sweet Want
Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you’ll behave to other people.
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Empathy Literature People
Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they’re afraid to plant themselves?
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Feet Feminist Girl
Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn’t it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.
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Civilization Kids Two
From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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Kitchen Memories Men
Now I’m starting to think he wasn’t supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
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Doorways Starting Thinking
Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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Balance Expectations Pajamas
Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.
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Alone Being Life Writing
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Empathy Fiction Stranger
The thing is, it’s my own fault. I just can’t put up with a person that won’t go out of his way for me. And that’s what a man is. Somebody that won’t go out of his way for you. I bet it says that in the dictionary.
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Fault Men Way

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