Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOEREverything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.
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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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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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I wasn’t trying to invent better and better homes, but to show her that homes didn’t matter, we could live in any home, in any city, in any country, in any century, and be happy, as if the world were just what we lived in.
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Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.
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Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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We are lying to ourselves and to each other. Lying about what? I don’t care if we’re lying. I am a bad person. I don’t care. I don’t care what you are.
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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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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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As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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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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Food for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, religion, history, and, of course, love. As if the fruit she always offered us were picked from the destroyed brances of out family tree.
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We spent our lives making livings.
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