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.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERNo matter how much I feel, I’m not going to let it out. If I have to cry, I’m gonna cry on the inside. If I have to bleed, I’ll bruise. If my heart starts going crazy, I’m not gonna tell everyone in the world about it. It doesn’t help anything. It just makes everyone’s life worse.
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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that “beauty always takes place in the particular.” Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.
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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.
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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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He couldn’t bear to live, but he couldn’t bear to die. He couldn’t bear the thought of he making love to someone else, but neither could he bear the absence of the thought. And as for the note, he couldn’t bear to keep it, but he couldn’t bear to destroy it either.
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I don’t think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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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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One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
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People with nothing to declare carry the most.
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My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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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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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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