Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERSadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
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The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.
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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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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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I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember,
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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 got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn’t even matter if I existed at all.
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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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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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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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Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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There are still many different ways to get stuck, existentially stuck. Feeling like, “This is worthless. I’m wasting my time, and I would be wasting the time of someone who tried to read this.” It happens all the time.
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