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She extended a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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Fear Order Time Yourself
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
He couldn’t bear to live, but he couldn’t bear to die. He couldn’t bear the thought of he making love to someone else, but neither could he bear the absence of the thought. And as for the note, he couldn’t bear to keep it, but he couldn’t bear to destroy it either.
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Death Destroy Himself Live Note
If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.
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Camera Hunting Thrill
Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they’re nothing.” “So what’s something?” “Being reliable is something. Being good.
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Feeling Goodness Reliable Trust
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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Each Other Hard Love Myself Stranger Thinking
It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.
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Imagination Thinking Yourself
People with nothing to declare carry the most.
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Carry Declare People Talk
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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Children Food Growth Ourselves People Strange Upset
I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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Blank Book Infinite Myself Time
We aren’t exactly emptying the oceans; it’s more like clear-cutting a forest with thousands of species to create massive fields with one type of soybean.
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Empty Exact Forest Ocean Oneself Type
Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn’t matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?
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Decision Eat Goodness Literature Suffering Taste Yourself
But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
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Come Explanation Mend Myself
I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love.
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Food Limitation Love Myself
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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Heart Intimate Myself Often Present Rich Save Technology 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

She extended a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.

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