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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.

Barbara Kingsolver

What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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Kindness Simple Want
I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
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Decided Dresses Memorable
In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career – my anti-job – that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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Careers Jobs Stress
Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they’re afraid to plant themselves?
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Feet Feminist Girl
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
Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
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Notebook Silence Writing
Sugar, it’s no parade but you’ll get down the street one way or another, so you’d just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
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Pace Sugar Way
The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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Earth Men Sound
Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man’s skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people’s back yards.
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Father Heart Men
The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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Important Pieces Stories
I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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Farmers Farms Virginia
Now I’m starting to think he wasn’t supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
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Doorways Starting Thinking
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
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
Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.
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Life Lucky Trying
Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what’s not in it.
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Empty House Lying

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