I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOEREvery moment before this one depends on this one.
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Every moment before this one depends on this one.
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Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
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The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.
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One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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Everything that’s born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they’re all on fire, and we’re all trapped.
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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 can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
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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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She 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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I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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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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I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.
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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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I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.
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