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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

Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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Middle Night Wonder
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can’t even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
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Fountain People Thinking Want
It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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Growing Safe Water
Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes
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Ada Balance Trying
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
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
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
It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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Changed Frightening Love Things
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
What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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Kindness Simple Want
I prefer to remain anomalous.
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Prefer Remain
As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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Animal Plant Thinking
The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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Earth Men Sound
We’re animals. We’re born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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Animal Born Mammals
Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just turned loose elephantiasis and microes that eat the human cornea. Now I understand, God is not just rooting fo the dollies.
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Boys Eden Girl
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

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

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