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Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.

Barbara Kingsolver

What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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Kindness Simple Want
That was when we smelled the rain. It was so strong it seemed like more than just a smell. When we stretched out our hands we could practically feel it rising up from the ground. I don’t know how a person could ever describe that scent.
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Hands Rain Strong
If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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Tact Toes Walks
They all attended Hester’s church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.
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Church Pyramid Scheme
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
Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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Circumstances Given Turns
I prefer to remain anomalous.
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Prefer Remain
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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Anticipation Hope Life
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history… Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.
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Alive Different Views
Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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Always Downstream Else Someone
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
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
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
Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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Believe Deserve Luck
You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
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might Next Splits
…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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Moving Slides Tasks

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