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The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: “Do you like me?
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Arrangement Myself Question World
I wasn’t trying to invent better and better homes, but to show her that homes didn’t matter, we could live in any home, in any city, in any country, in any century, and be happy, as if the world were just what we lived in.
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Better Country Home Invention Live World
We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
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Burn Cure Fire Love Ourselves Start
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
The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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Himself Place Room World
She 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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Animal Born Color Different Herself
My point is that there are a lot of forces, like the media and the general political rhetoric tells us we should have more. That we should do better than our parents and have a bigger house or a better car.
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Better Car Force Home Media Parents Point Politics
We often use technology to save time, but increasingly, it either takes the saved time along with it, or makes the saved time less present, intimate and rich. I worry that the closer the world gets to our fingertips, the further it gets from our hearts.
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Heart Intimate Myself Often Present Rich Save Technology Time
Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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Animal Dog Happiness Oneself
I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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Life Live Myself One Liner Regret
I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love.
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Food Limitation Love Myself
Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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Hand Myself Time Training
Every moment before this one depends on this one.
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Depend Moments Oneself
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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Hard Ideas Important Remember Writing
Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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Feeling Fiction Reading Strong Work
Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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Fill Memories Time

The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.

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The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.

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