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- Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It's the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and…
- What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive. You keep…
- Memory runs along deep, fixed channels in the brain, like electricity along its conduits; only a cataclysm can make the electrons rear up in shock…
- Beginning a novel is always hard. It feels like going nowhere. I always have to write at least 100 pages that go into the trashcan…
- Gilbert has established herself as a straight-up storyteller who dares us into adventures of worldly discovery, and this novel stands as a winning next act.…
- Tomorrow these villagers would carry their secret icons into the church without any priest and light the candles themselves, moving together in single-minded grace. Like…
- In exchange for his first taste of powdered milk, Pascal showed me a tree we could climb to find a bird's nest. After we handled…
- Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
- What life can I live that will let me breathe in and out and love somebody or something and not run off screaming into the…
- To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into…
- Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.
- 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…
- My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my head is too full of…
- 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…
- But still, I’d be darned if I was going to be one of those Americans who stomp around Italy barking commands in ever-louder English. I…
- We came from Bethlehem, Georgia bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle.
- Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just…
- ...prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or…
- He lifts her breasts, which fit perfectly into his hands, though he knows this is no promise that he gets to keep them. A million…
- Every one of us is called upon, perhaps many times, to start a new life. A frightening diagnosis, a marriage, a move, loss of a…
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