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

Barbara Kingsolver

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
Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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Charity Needs Want
It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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Growing Safe Water
I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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Knows Pretending
There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.
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Home Moon Stars
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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Anticipation Hope Life
Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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Childhood Transition Unnoticed
Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
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Dirt might Today
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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Feeling Good Life Throwing
You don’t think you’ll live past it and you don’t really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that’s still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.
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Grief Past Thinking
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Criminal Inspirational Memories Mind
Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it’s going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas and concerns and even catastrophes that they will think about in a new way.
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Real Thinking Writing
People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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Book Life People Uncertainty
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Different Life Way
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
As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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Animal Plant Thinking

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