While it is always possible to wake a person who’s sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERWe had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.
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Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn’t someone, somewhere, laughing?
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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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The mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did.
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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?
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I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.
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We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.
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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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Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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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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People with nothing to declare carry the most.
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In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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I am sure people tell you this constantly but if you looked up ‘incredibly beautiful’ in the dictionary there would be a picture of you.
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I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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Isn’t it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we’re doing what we’re doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?
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Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.
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It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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Writers 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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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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