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Everything I did, I did because I thought it was the correct thing to do, I am not a hero, it is true, But I am not a bad person, either.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable-the saltwater is also tears; the honey not only tastes sweet, but makes us think of sweetness; the matzo is the bread of our affliction.
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Food Help Honey Nourish Ourselves Purpose Remember Serve Tears
Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.
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Aware Direction Life Live Miss Move Oneself Opportunity
I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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Life Live Myself One Liner Regret
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
The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
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Active Forget Pain Remember
Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?
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Destiny Fate Life
Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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Feeling Fiction Reading Strong Work
Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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Deep Equality Respond Silence
She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee’s knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anywhere else
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Animal Born Color Different Herself
We aren’t exactly emptying the oceans; it’s more like clear-cutting a forest with thousands of species to create massive fields with one type of soybean.
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Empty Exact Forest Ocean Oneself Type
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
Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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Existence Love Myself Try
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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Best Day Life Myself Thinking
We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
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Imagination Oneself Universe
I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
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Different Hate Myself
I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone.
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Alone Feeling Myself Universe

Everything I did, I did because I thought it was the correct thing to do, I am not a hero, it is true, But I am not a bad person, either.

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