People with nothing to declare carry the most.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERSongs are as sad as the listener.
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The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.
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Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn’t someone, somewhere, laughing?
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I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
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One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
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We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?
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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.
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We are not long-term beings. Not heroes of romances in many volumes. For one gesture, for one word alone, we shall make the effort. We openly admit: our creations will be temporary. We shall have this as our aim: a gesture.
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Only humans can cry tears.
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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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She said, “Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don’t need?” I said, “It depends on what it means to need.
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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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