Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERPart of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.
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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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We spent our lives making livings.
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I do think ordinariness is, in a way, the enemy, but not ordinariness as the opposite of flamboyance.
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Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine’s Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.
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She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.
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With writing, we have second chances.
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It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes.
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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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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn’t even matter if I existed at all.
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