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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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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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We often use technology to save time, but increasingly, it either takes the saved time along with it, or makes the saved time less present, intimate and rich. I worry that the closer the world gets to our fingertips, the further it gets from our hearts.
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Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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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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You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.
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There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.
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The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn’t stop each other on the street to say I love you.
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There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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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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It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all.
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The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
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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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In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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