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?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
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It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about “Eleanor Rigby.” It’s true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong?
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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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I do think ordinariness is, in a way, the enemy, but not ordinariness as the opposite of flamboyance.
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I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: “Do you like me?
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I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
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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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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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You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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With writing, we have second chances.
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I put my hand on the doorknob because I thought maybe her hand was on the doorknob on the other side.
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There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.
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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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My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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