Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERIn my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
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Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.
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When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
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I am sure people tell you this constantly but if you looked up ‘incredibly beautiful’ in the dictionary there would be a picture of you.
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With writing, we have second chances.
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I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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I tried the key in all the doors, even though he said he didn’t recognize it. It’s not that I didn’t trust him, becuase I did. It’s that at the end of my search I wanted to be able to say: I don’t know how I could have tried harder.
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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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We are not long-term beings. Not heroes of romances in many volumes. For one gesture, for one word alone, we shall make the effort. We openly admit: our creations will be temporary. We shall have this as our aim: a gesture.
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Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they’re nothing.” “So what’s something?” “Being reliable is something. Being good.
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Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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Songs are as sad as the listener.
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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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