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As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.

Barbara Kingsolver

Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.
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Animal Skills Vegetables
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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Book Library Rip
It’s terrible to lose somebody, but it’s also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that’s got to be so much worse.
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People Terrible Thinking
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
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
It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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Get One Thing Over
Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
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Creativity People Writing
I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.
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Poetry Summer Thinking
Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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Charity Needs Want
I’m of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
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Library Mind Soul
I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Grew Grew Up People
If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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Dream Sweet Want
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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Dream Hope Life Lesson
People ask without wanting to know.
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Ask Knows People
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
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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Anticipation Hope Life

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