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We spent our lives making livings.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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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Allow Conversation Culture Family Food Important Reason Simplicity
And she would say, “Today you believe in God?” And he would say, “Today I believe in love”.
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Believe God Love Myself
Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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Meaning Word
Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.
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Bone Hear Live Myself Time Weight
I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
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Forgiveness Leave Myself Return
Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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Wonder Word Work World Worth
The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It’s already happening.
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Factory People Reality See Willing
I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.
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Missing Myself Sorry Wonder
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
I dreamt four nights ago of clock hands descending from the universe like rain, of the moon as a green eye, of mirrors and insects, of a love that never withdrew. It was not the feeling of completeness that I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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Complete Dreams Fantasy Feeling Myself Universe
The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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Himself Place Room World
It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.
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Imagination Thinking Yourself
Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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Day Future Horizon Reach
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 tried the key in all the doors, even though he said he didn’t recognize it. It’s not that I didn’t trust him, becuase I did. It’s that at the end of my search I wanted to be able to say: I don’t know how I could have tried harder.
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Hard Key Myself Trust Try
I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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Blank Book Infinite Myself Time

We spent our lives making livings.

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