Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERTomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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I didn’t feel empty. I wished I’d felt empty. … I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.
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I wasn’t trying to invent better and better homes, but to show her that homes didn’t matter, we could live in any home, in any city, in any country, in any century, and be happy, as if the world were just what we lived in.
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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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We spent our lives making livings.
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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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Most of the times that I think about my relationship to Judaism, I not only accuse myself of a shallowness, but I feel certain that there’s a shallowness there. That’s not a bad thing, really.
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When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.
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One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don’t know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter.
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I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
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We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.
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It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.
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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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Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It’s almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.
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Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
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Everything that’s born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they’re all on fire, and we’re all trapped.
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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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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes.
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I watched the sheets breathe when she breathed, like how Dad used to say that trees inhale when people exhale, because I was too young to understand the truth about biological processes.
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I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
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One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
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It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
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And she would say, “Today you believe in God?” And he would say, “Today I believe in love”.
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