I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERIt 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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It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.
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I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
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It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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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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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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One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable-the saltwater is also tears; the honey not only tastes sweet, but makes us think of sweetness; the matzo is the bread of our affliction.
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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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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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Not responding is a response–we are equally responsible for what we don’t do. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle.
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I watched the sheets breathe when she breathed, like how Dad used to say that trees inhale when people exhale, because I was too young to understand the truth about biological processes.
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What does it remember like?
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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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