I have so much to say to you. I want to begin at the beginning, because that is what you deserve. I want to tell you everything, without leaving out a single detail. But where is the beginning? And what is everything?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERSilently the animal catches our glance. The animal looks at us, and whether we look away or not, we are exposed. Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.
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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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I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
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You do not have to utter anything you do not want to utter,” I told her, and she said, “Then I would never utter another word again.” “You do not have to do anything that you do not want to do.” “Then I would never do anything again.
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I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.
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In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates.
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I never confused what I had with what I was.
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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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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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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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Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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I dreamt four nights ago of clock hands descending from the universe like rain, of the moon as a green eye, of mirrors and insects, of a love that never withdrew. It was not the feeling of completeness that I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.
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