Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOEROf 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 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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What does it remember like?
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She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.
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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d’ve done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.
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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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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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We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.
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This is love, she thought, isn’t it? When you notice someone’s absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?
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I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: “Do you like me?
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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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The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
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There were 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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With writing, we have second chances.
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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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