Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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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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The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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My wife and I have chosen to bring up our children as vegetarians. In another time or place, we might have made a different decision. But the realities of our present moment compelled us to make that choice.
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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.
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Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.
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Let love write on you for awhile.
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One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.
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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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The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.
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