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.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all.
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We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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I never confused what I had with what I was.
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Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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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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Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember,
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Of course food has an important cultural use in families, but there are things that have more important cultural uses in families, and broadening the conversation out simply from what’s reasonable also allows in other things.
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I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
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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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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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Sometimes I imagined stitching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love? Why does anyone ever make love?
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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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