I was more alone than if I had been alone.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERWe shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? Do we all make the same mistakes, or has one of us gotten it right, or even just a bit less wrong, am I the imposter?
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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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We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates.
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I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
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I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: “Do you like me?
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I never confused what I had with what I was.
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Only humans can cry tears.
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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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So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!
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I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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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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I have so much to say to you. I want to begin at the beginning, because that is what you deserve. I want to tell you everything, without leaving out a single detail. But where is the beginning? And what is everything?
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You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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