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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

In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune.
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Long Passion Running
Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don’t know what I’m looking for. I just do it.
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Airplane Staring Steps
The way I see it, a person isn’t nothing more than a scarecrow… The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they’re stuck up there on.
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Blow Differences Way
All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.
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Politician Promise War
Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.
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Life Lucky Trying
I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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Art Failing Political
I don’t bring expectations to any of my books. I don’t tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
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Book Expectations People
Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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Cost Greed Money
Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don’t; but we wear it all the same
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Fortune How Know Same Wear
Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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Charity Needs Want
A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
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Doe Dog Thinking
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Criminal Inspirational Memories Mind
If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
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Jobs Standing Stink
If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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Dream Sweet Want
But kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run.
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Job Mother Running
A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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Busybodies Hazards Thinking

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