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I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Let love write on you for awhile.
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Love Sex Writing Yourself
Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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Compassionate Truth
Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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Feeling Fiction Reading Strong Work
When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much.
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Feeling Life Loud Music Myself Stranger
My point is that there are a lot of forces, like the media and the general political rhetoric tells us we should have more. That we should do better than our parents and have a bigger house or a better car.
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Better Car Force Home Media Parents Point Politics
Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable-the saltwater is also tears; the honey not only tastes sweet, but makes us think of sweetness; the matzo is the bread of our affliction.
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Food Help Honey Nourish Ourselves Purpose Remember Serve Tears
In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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Conversation End Family Father Myself
Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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Hear Return Time Yourself
It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.
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Hard Live Person Place Travel
One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
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Day Family Hate Love Oneself Yourself
Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. Each second was two hundred yards, to be walked, crawled. You couldn’t see the next hour, it was so far in the distance. Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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Day Distance Fill Memories Reach Time Walk Yourself
I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.
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Imagination Myself Ocean Yourself
Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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Wonder Word Work World Worth
Silently the animal catches our glance. The animal looks at us, and whether we look away or not, we are exposed. Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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Animal Change Expose Live Respond Silence
Every moment before this one depends on this one.
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Depend Moments Oneself
We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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Each Other Talk Way Word

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