Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERWe are lying to ourselves and to each other. Lying about what? I don’t care if we’re lying. I am a bad person. I don’t care. I don’t care what you are.
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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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When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.
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I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: “Do you like me?
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Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
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I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.
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Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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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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Only humans can cry tears.
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The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn’t stop each other on the street to say I love you.
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What does it remember like?
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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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I don’t think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.
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