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Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.

Barbara Kingsolver

There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.
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Home Moon Stars
Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed.
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Blow Blue Sky
When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday.
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Everyday Want Window
Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
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Betrayal Heads Perfect Tails
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
A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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Busybodies Hazards Thinking
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
I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
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Decided Dresses Memorable
Everything truly important is washable.
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Housework Important
How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.
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Bird Book Want
If we can’t, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
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Art Bread Real
Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It’s the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
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Creativity People Writing
She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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Alone Inhumanity Once
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Different Life Way

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