I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: “Do you like me?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERWorthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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Of course food has an important cultural use in families, but there are things that have more important cultural uses in families, and broadening the conversation out simply from what’s reasonable also allows in other things.
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We spent our lives making livings.
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The mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did.
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Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.
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No matter how much I feel, I’m not going to let it out. If I have to cry, I’m gonna cry on the inside. If I have to bleed, I’ll bruise. If my heart starts going crazy, I’m not gonna tell everyone in the world about it. It doesn’t help anything. It just makes everyone’s life worse.
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I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.
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Isn’t it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we’re doing what we’re doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?
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Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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She said, “Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don’t need?” I said, “It depends on what it means to need.
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I didn’t feel empty. I wished I’d felt empty. … I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.
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I tried the key in all the doors, even though he said he didn’t recognize it. It’s not that I didn’t trust him, becuase I did. It’s that at the end of my search I wanted to be able to say: I don’t know how I could have tried harder.
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Everything that’s born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they’re all on fire, and we’re all trapped.
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One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates.
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Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.
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You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can’t people say what they mean at the time?
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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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I never confused what I had with what I was.
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Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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Just to be a functioning adult in the world, we develop all of these layers of protection. When we see homeless people, we don’t cry, even though homeless people probably deserve our tears – you know, it’s a horrible thing.
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The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
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