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Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?

Jonathan Safran Foer

Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable-the saltwater is also tears; the honey not only tastes sweet, but makes us think of sweetness; the matzo is the bread of our affliction.
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Food Help Honey Nourish Ourselves Purpose Remember Serve Tears
Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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Hand Myself Time Training
I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember,
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Life Lose Myself Remember Try
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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Best Day Life Myself Thinking
She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee’s knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anywhere else
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Animal Born Color Different Herself
Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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Fear Order Time Yourself
Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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Brain Invention Myself Quiet
With writing, we have second chances.
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Chance Opportunity Writing
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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Bad Each Other Lying Yourself
Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat.
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Animal Cat Dog Farm Illegal Practice Treat Way
There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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Understand Wrong Yourself
Why are you leaving me? He wrote, I do not know how to live. I do not know either but I am trying. I do not know how to try. There were some 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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Break Up Bury Himself Leaving Live Myself Try Writing
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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Family Food Herself Offering Terror Tree
Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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Animal Dog Happiness Oneself
We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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Believe Cook God
I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
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Different Hate Myself

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