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I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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Animal Dog Happiness Oneself
We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? Do we all make the same mistakes, or has one of us gotten it right, or even just a bit less wrong, am I the imposter?
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Imposter Myself Recognition Share Smile Wrong
One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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Erase Happiness Oneself Pain
Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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Fear Order Time Yourself
We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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Believe Cook God
Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It’s almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.
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Car Design Faith Writing
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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Different Myself Silence World
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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Asleep Person Possible Sleep Wake Willing
Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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Feeling Fiction Reading Strong Work
She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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Avoid Finding Herself Mirror Powerful
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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Hands Myself Side Thinking
My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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Life Myself Story
We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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Each Other Talk Way Word
I do think ordinariness is, in a way, the enemy, but not ordinariness as the opposite of flamboyance.
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Enemy Myself Ordinary Thinking Way
Just to be a functioning adult in the world, we develop all of these layers of protection. When we see homeless people, we don’t cry, even though homeless people probably deserve our tears – you know, it’s a horrible thing.
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Adult Cry Deserve Development Function Home Ourselves People World
I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.
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Children Myself Need Past

I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone.

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