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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.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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
I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: “Do you like me?
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Arrangement Myself Question World
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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Allow Conversation Culture Family Food Important Reason Simplicity
There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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Understand Wrong Yourself
I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.
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Missing Myself Sorry Wonder
Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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Fill Memories Time
Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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Day Future Horizon Reach
One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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Erase Happiness Oneself Pain
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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Bruise Earn Feeling Hate Life Yourself
The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that “beauty always takes place in the particular.” Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.
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Cruelty Observation Philosophy Place
We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
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Imagination Oneself Universe
We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
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Burn Cure Fire Love Ourselves Start
I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone.
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Alone Feeling Myself Universe
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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Admire Book Feeling Reading Yourself
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
She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.
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Beginning Fall In Love Herself Ordinary Time

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 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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