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Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you’re contagious.

Barbara Kingsolver

Many of us who aren’t farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.
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Past Real Secret
It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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Everything Freedom Give Great Love
I prefer to remain anomalous.
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Prefer Remain
Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down.” – Mrs. Brown
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Needs Pull Shepherds Ups
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Different Life Way
What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.
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Book Fall Rocks
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
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Adults Children 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
It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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Changed Frightening Love Things
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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Heart Moving Pain
My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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Nightmares Nothing Stuck Worst
You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don’t attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.
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Group Needs World
I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Grew Grew Up People
Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn’t it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.
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Civilization Kids Two
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history… Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.
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Alive Different Views

Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you’re contagious.

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