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Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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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Day Holiday Oneself Thankful
I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.
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Children Myself Need Past
One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
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Day Family Hate Love Oneself Yourself
The mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did.
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Death Mistake Myself
I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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Myself Thinking
Everything that’s born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they’re all on fire, and we’re all trapped.
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Born Death Fire Live Ourselves Rise Smoking
Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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Fill Memories Time
Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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Day Future Horizon Reach
I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.
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Different Help Myself Remember Time
I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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Believe Challenge Faith God Myself
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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Bad Myself Relationship Shallow Thinking Time
He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that you could recommend.
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Admire Book Feeling Reading Yourself
When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much.
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Feeling Life Loud Music Myself Stranger
I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
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Day Myself Wash
I put my hand on the doorknob because I thought maybe her hand was on the doorknob on the other side.
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Hands Myself Side Thinking
I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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Blank Book Infinite Myself Time

Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.

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