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You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.

Barbara Kingsolver

Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
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Everything Right Sure Travel
I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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Art Failing Political
Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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Determine Used World
If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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Heart Important Remember
Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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Cure First Kill
There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.
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Eggs Life Perfect
My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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Nightmares Nothing Stuck Worst
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
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Empathy Fiction Stranger
From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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Fallen Tree Trouble
Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.
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Automobile Body Feet Human Two
In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career – my anti-job – that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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Careers Jobs Stress
In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune.
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Long Passion Running
Insomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That’s what it’s like in my head. The light stays on.
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Doors Insomnia Light
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
Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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Day Diagonal Human Nature

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