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She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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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Hard Ideas Important Remember Writing
I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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Blank Book Infinite Myself Time
The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that “beauty always takes place in the particular.” Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.
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Cruelty Observation Philosophy Place
Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. Each second was two hundred yards, to be walked, crawled. You couldn’t see the next hour, it was so far in the distance. Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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Day Distance Fill Memories Reach Time Walk Yourself
People with nothing to declare carry the most.
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Carry Declare People Talk
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
Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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Meaning Word
In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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Manufacture Myself Truth Wall
Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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Existence Love Myself Try
If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.
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Communication Music Understand
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
So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!
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Leaving Let Go Life People Yourself
Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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Enough Expression One Liner Sadness Word
I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone.
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Alone Feeling Myself Universe
I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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Alone Myself
Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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Fear Order Time Yourself

She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes.

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