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Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.

Barbara Kingsolver

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
Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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Cure First Kill
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
I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.
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Poetry Summer Thinking
The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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Community People
If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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Tact Toes Walks
Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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Doe Numbers Revenge
Everything truly important is washable.
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Housework Important
Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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Appreciate Family Stranger
The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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Earth Men Sound
It’s one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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Else One Thing Somewhere
The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
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Artist Novelist Writing
…prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or a heart or a seed curled into itself in the ground could resist welcoming it back when it came.
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Heart Summer Wings
I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
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Decided Dresses Memorable
Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
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Notebook Silence Writing
How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
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Foolish Losing Loss

Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.

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Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.

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