I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERArt 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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She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes.
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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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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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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. Each second was two hundred yards, to be walked, crawled. You couldn’t see the next hour, it was so far in the distance. Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.
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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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It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us…on the inside, looking out.
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In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that “beauty always takes place in the particular.” Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.
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There are still many different ways to get stuck, existentially stuck. Feeling like, “This is worthless. I’m wasting my time, and I would be wasting the time of someone who tried to read this.” It happens all the time.
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Let love write on you for awhile.
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Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine’s Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.
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But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
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