This is love, she thought, isn’t it? When you notice someone’s absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERWriters now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It’s almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.
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This is my heart. You are touching it with your left hand. You are touching it with your left hand, not because you are left-handed, although you might be, but because I am holding it against my heart. What you are feeling is the beating of my heart. It is what keeps me alive.
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Most of the times that I think about my relationship to Judaism, I not only accuse myself of a shallowness, but I feel certain that there’s a shallowness there. That’s not a bad thing, really.
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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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Part 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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We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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Songs are as sad as the listener.
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Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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We aren’t exactly emptying the oceans; it’s more like clear-cutting a forest with thousands of species to create massive fields with one type of soybean.
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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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I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember,
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Let love write on you for awhile.
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Only humans can cry tears.
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He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.
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When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much.
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Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?
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My point is that there are a lot of forces, like the media and the general political rhetoric tells us we should have more. That we should do better than our parents and have a bigger house or a better car.
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I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
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Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don’t mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.
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Of course food has an important cultural use in families, but there are things that have more important cultural uses in families, and broadening the conversation out simply from what’s reasonable also allows in other things.
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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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The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
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The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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Also, I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year, and then you take it off and wear it.
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