We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERWe could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
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Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
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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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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.
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Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
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With writing, we have second chances.
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We spent our lives making livings.
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We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
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Silently the animal catches our glance. The animal looks at us, and whether we look away or not, we are exposed. Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.
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Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.
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When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
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We are lying to ourselves and to each other. Lying about what? I don’t care if we’re lying. I am a bad person. I don’t care. I don’t care what you are.
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What does it remember like?
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Every moment before this one depends on this one.
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