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Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.

Barbara Kingsolver

We agreed with him in principal – we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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Children Littles Magic
People ask without wanting to know.
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Ask Knows People
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Differences Father Tasks
Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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Circumstances Given Turns
If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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Tact Toes Walks
I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer’s block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don’t. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.
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Block Jobs Waiting
Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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Childhood Transition Unnoticed
People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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Book Life People Uncertainty
Everything truly important is washable.
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Housework Important
Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven.
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Animal Song Vegetables
There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.
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Believe Grief Track
It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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Growing Safe Water
What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
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might Reality Space
Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
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Everything Right Sure Travel
Height isn’t something you can have and just let be, like nice teeth or naturally curly hair. People have this idea you have to put it to use, playing basketball, for example, or observing the weather up there. If you are a girl, they feel a particular need to point your height out to you, as if you might not have noticed.
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Basketball Girl Nice
Many of us who aren’t farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.
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Past Real Secret

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