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Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone.
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Alone Feeling Myself Universe
Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they’re nothing.” “So what’s something?” “Being reliable is something. Being good.
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Feeling Goodness Reliable Trust
So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!
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Leaving Let Go Life People Yourself
Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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Deep Equality Respond Silence
Ironically, the utterly unselective omnivore — “I’m easy; I’ll eat anything” — can appear more socially sensitive than the individual who tries to eat in a way that is good for society.
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Appearance Easy Eat Goodness Social Society Way
Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?
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Destiny Fate Life
As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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Alive Myself Thinking
Not responding is a response–we are equally responsible for what we don’t do. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle.
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Equality Fingers Respond Responsibility Throw Yourself
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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Each Other Hard Love Myself Stranger Thinking
My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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Life Myself Story
Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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Feeling Fiction Reading Strong Work
Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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Compassionate Truth
Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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Head Shy Yourself
We spent our lives making livings.
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Creation Live One Liner
Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.
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Ability Choice Cruelty Ignorance Understand
It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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Love Missing Tragedy Yourself

Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.

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