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Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine’s Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.
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Day Holiday Oneself Thankful
Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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Hand Myself Time Training
Only humans can cry tears.
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Cry Human Tears
I do think ordinariness is, in a way, the enemy, but not ordinariness as the opposite of flamboyance.
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Enemy Myself Ordinary Thinking Way
If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.
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Communication Music Understand
It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.
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Imagination Thinking Yourself
Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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Meaning Word
Silently the animal catches our glance. The animal looks at us, and whether we look away or not, we are exposed. Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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Animal Change Expose Live Respond Silence
When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much.
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Feeling Life Loud Music Myself Stranger
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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Allow Conversation Culture Family Food Important Reason Simplicity
The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that “beauty always takes place in the particular.” Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.
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Cruelty Observation Philosophy Place
The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn’t stop each other on the street to say I love you.
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Each Other Hard Love Myself Stranger Thinking
Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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Existence Love Myself Try
We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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Believe Cook God
She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.
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Angry Forget Hands Herself Laughter Sadness
I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.
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Day Experience Hope Love Understand Willing Yourself

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