One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI dreamt four nights ago of clock hands descending from the universe like rain, of the moon as a green eye, of mirrors and insects, of a love that never withdrew. It was not the feeling of completeness that I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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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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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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I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember,
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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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I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
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Songs are as sad as the listener.
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Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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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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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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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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Of course food has an important cultural use in families, but there are things that have more important cultural uses in families, and broadening the conversation out simply from what’s reasonable also allows in other things.
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When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
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