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

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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Feeling Fiction Reading Strong Work
Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
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Believe Future Greatness Learning Time Treat
Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.
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Aware Direction Life Live Miss Move Oneself Opportunity
One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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Erase Happiness Oneself Pain
The mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did.
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Death Mistake Myself
We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
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Imagination Oneself Universe
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
This is love, she thought, isn’t it? When you notice someone’s absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?
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Absence Hate Himself Love Presence
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
We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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Each Other Talk Way Word
I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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Alone Myself
Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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Enough Expression One Liner Sadness Word
He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.
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Children Deep Family Father Lying Myself Parents Promise
Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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Change Live Ourselves Respond
Art can be very political but that can’t be the purpose of art, it can’t be the driving force. It isn’t with any of the books that I love, anyway.
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Art Drive Love Myself Politics Purpose
I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.
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Deep Missing Myself Problem Surround

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