Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERShe said, “Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don’t need?” I said, “It depends on what it means to need.
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Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.
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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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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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I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember,
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Of course food has an important cultural use in families, but there are things that have more important cultural uses in families, and broadening the conversation out simply from what’s reasonable also allows in other things.
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It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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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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I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
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Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn’t stop each other on the street to say I love you.
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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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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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If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.
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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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Most of the times that I think about my relationship to Judaism, I not only accuse myself of a shallowness, but I feel certain that there’s a shallowness there. That’s not a bad thing, really.
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Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.
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I put my hand on the doorknob because I thought maybe her hand was on the doorknob on the other side.
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Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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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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The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It’s already happening.
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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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And she would say, “Today you believe in God?” And he would say, “Today I believe in love”.
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