Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERThe hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.
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I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.
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I put my hand on the doorknob because I thought maybe her hand was on the doorknob on the other side.
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You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.
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The mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did.
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Art can be very political but that can’t be the purpose of art, it can’t be the driving force. It isn’t with any of the books that I love, anyway.
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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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I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
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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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Sometimes I imagined stitching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love? Why does anyone ever make love?
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Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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