I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone.
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There are only some many times you can utter “It does not hurt” before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.
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What does it remember like?
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It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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We spent our lives making livings.
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It’s so beautiful at this hour. The sun is low, the shadows are long, the air is cold and clean. You won’t be awake for another five hours, but I can’t help feeling that we’re sharing this clear and beautiful morning.
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If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.
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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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The mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did.
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I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.
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The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn’t stop each other on the street to say I love you.
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But I believe that things are extremely complicated, and her looking over me was as complicated as anything could ever be. But it was also incredibly simple.
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I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love.
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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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She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and she never even loved me. Now that’s love.
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Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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