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Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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
Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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Feeling Fiction Reading Strong Work
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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Different Help Myself Remember Time
Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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Grow Up Worst
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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Car Design Faith Writing
Songs are as sad as the listener.
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Listening Sadness Song
In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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Manufacture Myself Truth Wall
In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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Conversation End Family Father Myself
One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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Erase Happiness Oneself Pain
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
Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don’t mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.
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Dreams End Eyes Myself Person World
She extended a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
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Break Fingers Hands Herself Silence
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
I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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Afraid Lose Love Myself Refusal
I tried the key in all the doors, even though he said he didn’t recognize it. It’s not that I didn’t trust him, becuase I did. It’s that at the end of my search I wanted to be able to say: I don’t know how I could have tried harder.
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Hard Key Myself Trust Try
We spent our lives making livings.
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Creation Live One Liner

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