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The happiest people are the ones with the most community.

Barbara Kingsolver

Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what’s not in it.
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Empty House Lying
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
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
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Different Life Way
If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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Dream Sweet Want
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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Kids Sorry Two
Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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Determine Used World
We agreed with him in principal – we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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Children Littles Magic
You think you’re the foreigner here, and I’m the American, and I just look the other way while the President or somebody sends down this and that . . . to torture people with. But nobody asked my permission, okay? Sometimes I feel like I’m a foreigner, too.
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People President 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
We’re surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
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Believe Literature Should
What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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Kindness Simple Want
The way I see it, a person isn’t nothing more than a scarecrow… The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they’re stuck up there on.
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Blow Differences Way
The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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Important Pieces Stories
Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
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

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