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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!

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
There are some who’d hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think’s been too lucky.
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Kindness Rocks Thinking
To think is not always to see.
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Always Thinking Visible
We’re animals. We’re born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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Animal Born Mammals
Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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Else Happensm Something Thinking
There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, ‘There now, hang on, you’ll get over it.’ Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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Cancer Depression Sadness
I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
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Inspirational Learning Trying
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
I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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Allies Imperfect Like Me
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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Feeling Good Life Throwing
My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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Nightmares Nothing Stuck Worst
A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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Busybodies Hazards Thinking
I prefer to remain anomalous.
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Prefer Remain
I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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Life Out Views Work
…prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or a heart or a seed curled into itself in the ground could resist welcoming it back when it came.
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Heart Summer Wings
I’m widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I’m not sure I can finish, generating at the edge of my powers. Some people bungee jump; I write.
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New People Something Writing

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