I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERPlease be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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Also, I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year, and then you take it off and wear it.
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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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Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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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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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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Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
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Every moment before this one depends on this one.
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It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can’t people say what they mean at the time?
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We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.
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Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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We aren’t exactly emptying the oceans; it’s more like clear-cutting a forest with thousands of species to create massive fields with one type of soybean.
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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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