Art can be very political but that can’t be the purpose of art, it can’t be the driving force. It isn’t with any of the books that I love, anyway.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERCruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.
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I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.
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We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.
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There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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People with nothing to declare carry the most.
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Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d’ve done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.
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You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.
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I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
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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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We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
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Every moment before this one depends on this one.
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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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