The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.
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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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You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.
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And she would say, “Today you believe in God?” And he would say, “Today I believe in love”.
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One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It’s already happening.
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I have so much to say to you. I want to begin at the beginning, because that is what you deserve. I want to tell you everything, without leaving out a single detail. But where is the beginning? And what is everything?
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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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Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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We spent our lives making livings.
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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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Also, I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year, and then you take it off and wear it.
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I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.
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It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us…on the inside, looking out.
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Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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