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Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.

Barbara Kingsolver

Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
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Looks Patience World
Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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Determine Used World
The thing is, it’s my own fault. I just can’t put up with a person that won’t go out of his way for me. And that’s what a man is. Somebody that won’t go out of his way for you. I bet it says that in the dictionary.
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Fault Men Way
In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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Life Thing World Wrong
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
Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed.
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Blow Blue Sky
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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Anticipation Hope Life
Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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Middle Night Wonder
No human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.
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Before Human Unnoticed World
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
The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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Rise Above Rising Talking
Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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Driving Honk Jesus Love
Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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Knives Memories Novelist
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
It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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Changed Frightening Love Things
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

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