We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERWords are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
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I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
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If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d’ve done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.
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I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
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Let love write on you for awhile.
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Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
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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.
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The French, who love their dogs, sometimes eat their horses. The Spanish, who love their horses, sometimes eat their cows. The Indians, who love their cows, sometimes eat their dogs.
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Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.
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We spent our lives making livings.
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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 regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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The meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I was the tree, the world was the river.
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Not responding is a response–we are equally responsible for what we don’t do. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle.
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With writing, we have second chances.
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It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can’t people say what they mean at the time?
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