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Lou Ann's life was ruled by the fear of salmonella, to the extent that she claimed the only safe way to eat potato salad was to stick your head in the refrigerator and eat it in there.
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On the day of the hunt I came to know in the slick center of my bones this one thing: all animals kill to survive, and we are animals.
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You feel like you'll never run into another one that's worth turning your head around for, but you will. You'll see." "No,"
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fact our shoes filled with mud and our clothes turned to slime, and it was the farthest thing from pleasant. Mosquitoes that had lain dormant through the long drought now hatched and rose from the forest floor in clouds so thick they filled our mouths and nostrils. I learned to draw back my lips and breathe slowly through my teeth, so I wouldn't choke on mosquitoes. When they'd covered our hands and faces with red welts they flew up our sle..
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nothing wondrous can come in this world unless it rests on the shoulders of kindness. He
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admired their own steadfast lives. Right up to the day when hope in all its versions went out of stock,
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some secrets kept themselves, out of a failure to stand up to the competing rumors. She
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recreational envy was
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It was a rule of marriage: the more desperately you needed alone time with your spouse, the quicker you'd spoil it with a blowout. When
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Pushing a refrigerated green vegetable from one end of the earth to another is, let's face it, a bizarre use of fuel. But there's a simpler reason to pass up off-season asparagus: it's inferior.
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Wardrobe of Denial. Blanchie glanced
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Damned thing, self-consciousness, like a pitiful stray dog tagging you down the road--so hard to shake off. So easy to get back.
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Her kitchen chairs were equipales that took you in like a hug, which I needed.
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The end was always curled up there between us, like a sleeping cat, present even in our love-making.
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Beene-beene.' The truest truth. For my whole sixteen years I've rarely thought I was worth much more than a distracted grumble from God. But now in my shelter of all things impossible, I drift in a warm bath of forgiveness, and it seems pointless to resist. If Anatole can wrap all my rattlebone sins in a blanket and call me goodness itself, why then I'll just believe him.
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I was exhausted but also for the first time in weeks I felt sleepiness, that rare, delicious liqueur, soaking into my body like blotter paper.
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Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behavior in children, and medicate it in adults? That
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Why do you suppose the poets talk about hearts?' he asked me suddenly. 'When they discuss emotional damage? The tissue of hearts is tough as a shoe. Did you ever sew up a heart?
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800 million people are chronically underfed (6 will die of hunger-related causes while you read this article), it's because they lack money and opportunity, not because food is unavailable in their countries.
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in the first hour of dawn, just as the hem of the sky began to whiten.
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We will change our ways significantly as a nation not when some laws tell us we have to (remember Prohibition?), but when we want to.
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Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best.
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If every U.S. citizen ate just one meal a week (any meal) composed of locally and organically raised meats and produce, we would reduce our country's oil consumption by over 1.1 million barrels of oil every week.
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Children - even when they have endured the unthinkable - have a gift for divining the moment when the grown-ups really need to lighten up.
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We seem to be built with a faulty gauge for moderation.
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I've heard a Buddhist monk suggest the number of food-caused deaths is minimized in steak dinners, which share one death over many meals, whereas the equation is reversed for a bowl of clams.
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It seems facile to declare one single forbidden fruit, when humans live under so many different kinds of trees.
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But Dovey was one of those people who traveled in a medium-size pod of tardiness on which others came to rely.
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Daddy and I got married kind of accidentally.
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U.S. policies restrict feeding cow tissue directly to other cows, but still allow cows to be fed to other animals (like chickens) and the waste from the chickens to be fed back to the cows.
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Why should it feel so risky to count concretely on a future?
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colonial American and Australian schoolchildren once memorized poems about British skylarks while the blue jays or cockatoos (according to continent) squawked outside, utterly ignored. The dominant culture has a way of becoming more real than the stuff at hand.
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48-point type, a letter size that big-city newspapers probably reserve for special occasions such as Armageddon. Out here in the heartland, we are not waiting that long. Our local paper's stance on the great big headline letters is: You got 'em, you use 'em.
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We newspaper readers all have our pet vexations. Somewhere in one of those sections is the column we anxiously turn to for the sole purpose of disagreeing with the columnist. Volubly.
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we've learned that some of our favorite things like DDT and the propellants in aerosol cans were rapidly unraveling the structure and substance of our biosphere. We gave them up, and reversed the threats. Now the reforms required of us are more systematic, and nobody seems to want to go first. (To be more precise, the U.S.A. wants to go last.)
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I try to be open-minded. And yet this food writer has less sense than God gave a goose about where food comes from. I'd worked on our relationship, moving through the stages of bafflement, denial, and asking this guy out loud, "Where do you live, the moon?"
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Christmas music fills our ears with tales of a Palestinian miracle birth, a generous Turkish saint whom the Dutch dressed in a red suit, and a Druid ceremonial tree...
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less the same in her own home, which she'd had no chance to clean. If neither of these qualified in Hester's mind as valid church-excused emergencies, Dellarobia
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In our state--no kidding--they are called Standards of Learning, or "SOLs." (I don't think anyone intended the joke.)"
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Everyone wants the tallest tree to fall
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We will change our ways significantly as a nation not when some laws tell us we have to (remember Prohibition?), but when we want
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Somehow it had come to pass that this man was her whole world, and she had failed to take his measure.
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People hang on for dear life to that one, she thought: the fool they are right now.
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