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The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.

Barbara Kingsolver

Maybe life doesn’t get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we’re willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.
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Grows Willing Wonder
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
Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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Middle Night Wonder
People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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Errors People Sin
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
Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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Believe Deserve Luck
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Differences Father Tasks
Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It’s just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.
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Animal Love Making Photography
High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
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Fashion Past Salad
Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.
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Life Lucky Trying
Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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Appreciate Family Stranger
If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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Dream Sweet Want
Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don’t know what I’m looking for. I just do it.
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Airplane Staring Steps
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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Honesty Needs Truth
You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
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might Next Splits
Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
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Creativity People Writing

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