In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERMemory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. Each second was two hundred yards, to be walked, crawled. You couldn’t see the next hour, it was so far in the distance. Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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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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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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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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If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.
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We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.
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Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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I am sure people tell you this constantly but if you looked up ‘incredibly beautiful’ in the dictionary there would be a picture of you.
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Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.
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It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all.
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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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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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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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I never confused what I had with what I was.
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