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Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.

Barbara Kingsolver

It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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Everything Freedom Give Great Love
I prefer to remain anomalous.
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Prefer Remain
Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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Determine Used World
Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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Believe Deserve Luck
I’ve about decided that’s the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you’re a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.
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Feelings People Sweaters
Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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Circumstances Given Turns
Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
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Intention Peacefulness Purpose
I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Best Work Offer Thinking
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Empathy Fiction Stranger
Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and get ready for the world to assume every word is true.
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Book Doubt Writing
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
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.
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Fountain People Thinking Want
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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Book Library Rip
It’s what you do that makes your soul.
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Dream Rabbits Soul
People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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Book Life People Uncertainty
How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.
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Bird Book Want

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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