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She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.

Jonathan Safran Foer

The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

Hard Ideas Important Remember Writing
Isn’t it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we’re doing what we’re doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?
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Children Food Growth Ourselves People Strange Upset
I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
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Day Myself Wash
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
She extended a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
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Break Fingers Hands Herself Silence
We are not long-term beings. Not heroes of romances in many volumes. For one gesture, for one word alone, we shall make the effort. We openly admit: our creations will be temporary. We shall have this as our aim: a gesture.
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Admit Effort Goal Human Open Romance Temporary Time Volume
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
One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

Day Family Hate Love Oneself Yourself
I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.
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Bury Memories Opinion Ourselves Past Remain Side
Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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Wonder Word Work World Worth
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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Best Day Life Myself Thinking
We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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Each Other Talk Way Word
But I believe that things are extremely complicated, and her looking over me was as complicated as anything could ever be. But it was also incredibly simple.
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Believe Complication Myself Simplicity
I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
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Hold On Lose Myself
In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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Manufacture Myself Truth Wall

She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.

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She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.

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