Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERIn the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you’ve lost, what can you say about that?
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I never confused what I had with what I was.
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We spent our lives making livings.
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Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable-the saltwater is also tears; the honey not only tastes sweet, but makes us think of sweetness; the matzo is the bread of our affliction.
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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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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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One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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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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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. Each second was two hundred yards, to be walked, crawled. You couldn’t see the next hour, it was so far in the distance. Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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People with nothing to declare carry the most.
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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that you could recommend.
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Everything I did, I did because I thought it was the correct thing to do, I am not a hero, it is true, But I am not a bad person, either.
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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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You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It’s already happening.
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