Let love write on you for awhile.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERThe philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that “beauty always takes place in the particular.” Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.
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I do think ordinariness is, in a way, the enemy, but not ordinariness as the opposite of flamboyance.
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I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
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With writing, we have second chances.
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Isn’t it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we’re doing what we’re doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?
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Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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