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Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I don’t think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
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Excellence Life Limitation Thinking
Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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Wonder Word Work World Worth
We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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Believe Cook God
Just to be a functioning adult in the world, we develop all of these layers of protection. When we see homeless people, we don’t cry, even though homeless people probably deserve our tears – you know, it’s a horrible thing.
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Adult Cry Deserve Development Function Home Ourselves People World
Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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Animal Dog Happiness Oneself
I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
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Different Hate Myself
I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love.
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Food Limitation Love Myself
Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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Hand Myself Time Training
If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d’ve done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.
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Different Myself Silence World
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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Beginning Hurt Time Yourself
We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
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Imagination Oneself Universe
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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Angry Forget Hands Herself Laughter Sadness
One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
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Day Family Hate Love Oneself Yourself
We often use technology to save time, but increasingly, it either takes the saved time along with it, or makes the saved time less present, intimate and rich. I worry that the closer the world gets to our fingertips, the further it gets from our hearts.
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Heart Intimate Myself Often Present Rich Save Technology Time
Art can be very political but that can’t be the purpose of art, it can’t be the driving force. It isn’t with any of the books that I love, anyway.
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Art Drive Love Myself Politics Purpose
Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
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Goodness Hope People Time Yourself

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