We often use technology to save time, but increasingly, it either takes the saved time along with it, or makes the saved time less present, intimate and rich. I worry that the closer the world gets to our fingertips, the further it gets from our hearts.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: “Do you like me?
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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’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can’t people say what they mean at the time?
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The meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I was the tree, the world was the river.
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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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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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Isn’t it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we’re doing what we’re doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?
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I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love.
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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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The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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Songs are as sad as the listener.
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