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Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.

Barbara Kingsolver

Now, see, that’s why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy…the trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn’t agree with you, all that’s left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho.
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Guy Idaho Like Neighbor People
This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark.
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Dark Mouth Scent
If we can’t, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
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Art Bread Real
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Differences Father Tasks
Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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Cure First Kill
organization is the religion of the single parent.
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Insuperable Organization Parent Single
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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Feeling Good Life Throwing
People ask without wanting to know.
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Ask Knows People
I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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Knows Pretending
No human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.
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Before Human Unnoticed World
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
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Adults Children People
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
Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes
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Ada Balance Trying
Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.
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Believe Heart Kids
I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don’t move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.
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Mountain Moving Winning
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.
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Meaningful Pain Spiritual

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