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Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
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Happiness Myself Thinking Time
It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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Love Missing Tragedy Yourself
Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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Feeling Fiction Reading Strong Work
Let love write on you for awhile.
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Love Sex Writing Yourself
My wife and I have chosen to bring up our children as vegetarians. In another time or place, we might have made a different decision. But the realities of our present moment compelled us to make that choice.
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Children Choice Decision Different Moments Place Present Reality Wife
But I believe that things are extremely complicated, and her looking over me was as complicated as anything could ever be. But it was also incredibly simple.
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Believe Complication Myself Simplicity
I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love.
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Food Limitation Love Myself
And she would say, “Today you believe in God?” And he would say, “Today I believe in love”.
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Believe God Love Myself
I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
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Forgiveness Leave Myself Return
When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
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Eat Factory Live Ourselves
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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Hard Key Myself Trust Try
It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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Complete Empty Feeling Myself Need
Most of the times that I think about my relationship to Judaism, I not only accuse myself of a shallowness, but I feel certain that there’s a shallowness there. That’s not a bad thing, really.
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Bad Myself Relationship Shallow Thinking Time
Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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Fill Memories Time
I don’t think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
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Excellence Life Limitation Thinking
Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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Fear Order Time Yourself

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

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