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.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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Art can be very political but that can’t be the purpose of art, it can’t be the driving force. It isn’t with any of the books that I love, anyway.
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I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.
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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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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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Silently the animal catches our glance. The animal looks at us, and whether we look away or not, we are exposed. Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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What does it remember like?
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I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.
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In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.
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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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One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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