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It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Let love write on you for awhile.
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Love Sex Writing Yourself
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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Animal Irony Time
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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Book Design Fascination Myself Poem Yourself
My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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Life Myself Story
We are lying to ourselves and to each other. Lying about what? I don’t care if we’re lying. I am a bad person. I don’t care. I don’t care what you are.
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Bad Each Other Lying Yourself
I never confused what I had with what I was.
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Confusion Myself
Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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Head Shy Yourself
I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
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Forgiveness Leave Myself Return
Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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Fear Order Time Yourself
While it is always possible to wake a person who’s sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
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Asleep Person Possible Sleep Wake Willing
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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Day Experience Hope Love Understand Willing Yourself
We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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Each Other Talk Way Word
Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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Compassionate Truth
We spent our lives making livings.
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Creation Live One Liner
Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable-the saltwater is also tears; the honey not only tastes sweet, but makes us think of sweetness; the matzo is the bread of our affliction.
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Food Help Honey Nourish Ourselves Purpose Remember Serve Tears
Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It’s almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.
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Car Design Faith Writing

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