Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.
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There are only some many times you can utter “It does not hurt” before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.
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Only humans can cry tears.
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The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It’s already happening.
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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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With writing, we have second chances.
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Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn’t even matter if I existed at all.
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I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.
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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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Every moment before this one depends on this one.
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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 do think ordinariness is, in a way, the enemy, but not ordinariness as the opposite of flamboyance.
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Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that you could recommend.
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