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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.

Jonathan Safran Foer

It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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Challenge Eat Myself
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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Creature Live Love Memories Reminder Story World
You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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Call Organic Yourself
The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that “beauty always takes place in the particular.” Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.
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Cruelty Observation Philosophy Place
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
Every night before putting her to sleep, Yankel counts her ribs, as if one might have disappeared in the course of the day and become the seed and soil for some new companion to steal her away from him.
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Appearance Himself Night Sleep Steal
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
I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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Blank Book Infinite Myself Time
The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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Himself Place Room World
Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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Animal Dog Happiness Oneself
If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.
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Communication Music Understand
We are not long-term beings. Not heroes of romances in many volumes. For one gesture, for one word alone, we shall make the effort. We openly admit: our creations will be temporary. We shall have this as our aim: a gesture.
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Admit Effort Goal Human Open Romance Temporary Time Volume
In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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Manufacture Myself Truth Wall
The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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Animal God Love
I watched the sheets breathe when she breathed, like how Dad used to say that trees inhale when people exhale, because I was too young to understand the truth about biological processes.
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Breathe Father Process Tree Understand Young
This is my heart. You are touching it with your left hand. You are touching it with your left hand, not because you are left-handed, although you might be, but because I am holding it against my heart. What you are feeling is the beating of my heart. It is what keeps me alive.
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Alive Feeling Hands Heart Touch Yourself

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