We spent our lives making livings.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERWe live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.
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I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love.
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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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We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
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I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.
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I don’t think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.
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I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
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Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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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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The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn’t stop each other on the street to say I love you.
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Most of the times that I think about my relationship to Judaism, I not only accuse myself of a shallowness, but I feel certain that there’s a shallowness there. That’s not a bad thing, really.
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The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
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Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and our nation to choose conscience over ease can.
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