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The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!

Jonathan Safran Foer

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
We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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Believe Cook God
The mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did.
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Death Mistake Myself
I have so much to say to you. I want to begin at the beginning, because that is what you deserve. I want to tell you everything, without leaving out a single detail. But where is the beginning? And what is everything?
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Beginning Deserve Detail Friendship Leaving Myself Relationship Talk Yourself
Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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Hear Return Time Yourself
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
There are still many different ways to get stuck, existentially stuck. Feeling like, “This is worthless. I’m wasting my time, and I would be wasting the time of someone who tried to read this.” It happens all the time.
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Different Myself Reading Wasted Time Way Worth
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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Hard Ideas Important Remember Writing
Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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Feeling Fiction Reading Strong Work
Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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Children Feed Myself Worth
My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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Life Myself Story
Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine’s Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.
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Day Holiday Oneself Thankful
She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.
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Angry Forget Hands Herself Laughter Sadness
I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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Afraid Lose Love Myself Refusal
If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.
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Communication Music Understand
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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Asleep Person Possible Sleep Wake Willing

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