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You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.

Barbara Kingsolver

…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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Moving Slides Tasks
I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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Allies Imperfect Like Me
I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Best Work Offer Thinking
Last time I talked to her she didn’t sound like herself. She’s depressed. It’s awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they’re no good.
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People Running Thinking
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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Perfect Time Writing
Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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Always Downstream Else Someone
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
The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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Community People
A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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Busybodies Hazards Thinking
A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
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Book Jumping Magic
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
Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.
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Cities Firsts Groups
Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven.
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Animal Song Vegetables
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
To people who think of themselves as God’s houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.
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Land Stupid Thinking
People ask without wanting to know.
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Ask Knows People

You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.

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