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.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERShe wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee’s knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anywhere else
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With writing, we have second chances.
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It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.
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You do not have to utter anything you do not want to utter,” I told her, and she said, “Then I would never utter another word again.” “You do not have to do anything that you do not want to do.” “Then I would never do anything again.
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Isn’t it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we’re doing what we’re doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?
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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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We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
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Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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Silently the animal catches our glance. The animal looks at us, and whether we look away or not, we are exposed. Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.
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As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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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.
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She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and she never even loved me. Now that’s love.
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I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.
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I’m sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.
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