I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone.
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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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Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
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She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.
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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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Ironically, the utterly unselective omnivore — “I’m easy; I’ll eat anything” — can appear more socially sensitive than the individual who tries to eat in a way that is good for society.
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It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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Only humans can cry tears.
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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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In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
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I do think ordinariness is, in a way, the enemy, but not ordinariness as the opposite of flamboyance.
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Every moment before this one depends on this one.
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We spent our lives making livings.
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