There are only some many times you can utter “It does not hurt” before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERBut I believe that things are extremely complicated, and her looking over me was as complicated as anything could ever be. But it was also incredibly simple.
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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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She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes.
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With writing, we have second chances.
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Ninety-nine percent of all land animals eaten or used to produce milk and eggs in the United States are factory farmed. So although there are important exceptions, to speak about eating animals today is to speak about factory farming.
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Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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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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No matter how much I feel, I’m not going to let it out. If I have to cry, I’m gonna cry on the inside. If I have to bleed, I’ll bruise. If my heart starts going crazy, I’m not gonna tell everyone in the world about it. It doesn’t help anything. It just makes everyone’s life worse.
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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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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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She said, “Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don’t need?” I said, “It depends on what it means to need.
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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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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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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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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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I do think ordinariness is, in a way, the enemy, but not ordinariness as the opposite of flamboyance.
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