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He needs to go rub his soul against life.

Barbara Kingsolver

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
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
Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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Middle Night Wonder
You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one’s own.
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Ideas Life Mother No Own
I prefer to remain anomalous.
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Prefer Remain
If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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Tact Toes Walks
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.
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Daughter Day Mom Mother
There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.
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Eggs Life Perfect
People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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Book Life People Uncertainty
Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It’s the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer’s long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn’t touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn’t stop.
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Dark Grief Moving
Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
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Everything Right Sure Travel
My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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Nightmares Nothing Stuck Worst
Maybe life doesn’t get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we’re willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.
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Grows Willing Wonder
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Differences Father Tasks
A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
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Doe Dog Thinking

He needs to go rub his soul against life.

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