My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERIn truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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I wasn’t trying to invent better and better homes, but to show her that homes didn’t matter, we could live in any home, in any city, in any country, in any century, and be happy, as if the world were just what we lived in.
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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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This is my heart. You are touching it with your left hand. You are touching it with your left hand, not because you are left-handed, although you might be, but because I am holding it against my heart. What you are feeling is the beating of my heart. It is what keeps me alive.
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As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?
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Sometimes I imagined stitching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love? Why does anyone ever make love?
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I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.
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One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates.
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I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.
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I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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We often use technology to save time, but increasingly, it either takes the saved time along with it, or makes the saved time less present, intimate and rich. I worry that the closer the world gets to our fingertips, the further it gets from our hearts.
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I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.
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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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With writing, we have second chances.
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