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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.

Barbara Kingsolver

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
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
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Adults Children People
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
Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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Bird Nests Safe
The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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Earth Men Sound
Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
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Dream Inspiring Running
organization is the religion of the single parent.
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Insuperable Organization Parent Single
A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn’t do.
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Lifetime Terror Thinking
Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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Day Diagonal Human Nature
I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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Art Failing Political
What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
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might Reality Space
The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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Important Pieces Stories
This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If the shark comes they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten.
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Heart Mean Moving
If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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Dresses Expensive Memorable
The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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Rise Above Rising Talking
Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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Prayer Transactions

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