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The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.

Barbara Kingsolver

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
This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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Believe Country States Thinking United
I prefer to remain anomalous.
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Prefer Remain
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
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
High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
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Fashion Past Salad
Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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Book Life People Uncertainty
You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.
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Love People Running Trust
It’s what you do that makes your soul.
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Dream Rabbits Soul
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
People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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Errors People Sin
Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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Dog Voice Water
She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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Found Rocks Swimming
The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see. Presumably the unselfish motives will follow as we wise up.
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Appreciation Selfish Wise
Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
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Dirt might Today

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