What does it remember like?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERTime was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don’t know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter.
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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
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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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The French, who love their dogs, sometimes eat their horses. The Spanish, who love their horses, sometimes eat their cows. The Indians, who love their cows, sometimes eat their dogs.
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Also, I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year, and then you take it off and wear it.
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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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So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!
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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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We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? Do we all make the same mistakes, or has one of us gotten it right, or even just a bit less wrong, am I the imposter?
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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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Everything I did, I did because I thought it was the correct thing to do, I am not a hero, it is true, But I am not a bad person, either.
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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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Why are you leaving me? He wrote, I do not know how to live. I do not know either but I am trying. I do not know how to try. There were some things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So i buried them and let them hurt me
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Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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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 hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.
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She extended a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
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Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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