Everything I did, I did because I thought it was the correct thing to do, I am not a hero, it is true, But I am not a bad person, either.
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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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and she never even loved me. Now that’s love.
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You do not have to utter anything you do not want to utter,” I told her, and she said, “Then I would never utter another word again.” “You do not have to do anything that you do not want to do.” “Then I would never do anything again.
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I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.
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You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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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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We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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There are only some many times you can utter “It does not hurt” before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.
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I watched the sheets breathe when she breathed, like how Dad used to say that trees inhale when people exhale, because I was too young to understand the truth about biological processes.
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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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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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Ironically, the utterly unselective omnivore — “I’m easy; I’ll eat anything” — can appear more socially sensitive than the individual who tries to eat in a way that is good for society.
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