One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERThanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine’s Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.
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Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.
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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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The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.
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Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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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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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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I am sure people tell you this constantly but if you looked up ‘incredibly beautiful’ in the dictionary there would be a picture of you.
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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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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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Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine’s Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.
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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.
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The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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