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People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.

Barbara Kingsolver

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
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
I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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Knows Pretending
…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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Moving Slides Tasks
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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Book Library Rip
High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
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Fashion Past Salad
Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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Knives Memories Novelist
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Different Life Way
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
the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
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Errors Limited Resources Spiritual
Everything truly important is washable.
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Housework Important
Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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Balance Expectations Pajamas
I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they’re feeling because that’s how I read the seed catalogs in January.
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Eye Hands Heart
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
To people who think of themselves as God’s houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.
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Land Stupid Thinking
Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables

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