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Jonathan Safran Foer

I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: “Do you like me?
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Arrangement Myself Question World
We spent our lives making livings.
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Creation Live One Liner
There are still many different ways to get stuck, existentially stuck. Feeling like, “This is worthless. I’m wasting my time, and I would be wasting the time of someone who tried to read this.” It happens all the time.
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Different Myself Reading Wasted Time Way Worth
Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.
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Ability Choice Cruelty Ignorance Understand
I didn’t feel empty. I wished I’d felt empty. … I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.
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Empty Feeling Myself Stone
It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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Complete Empty Feeling Myself Need
It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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Challenge Eat Myself
I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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Myself Thinking
Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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Deep Equality Respond Silence
Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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Brain Invention Myself Quiet
Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.
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Bone Hear Live Myself Time Weight
I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
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heavy Myself Thinking Time
We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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Believe Cook God
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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Car Design Faith Writing
But I believe that things are extremely complicated, and her looking over me was as complicated as anything could ever be. But it was also incredibly simple.
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Believe Complication Myself Simplicity
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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Beginning Fall In Love Herself Ordinary Time

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