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Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.

Jonathan Safran Foer

There are only some many times you can utter “It does not hurt” before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.
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Beginning Hurt Time Yourself
I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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Alone Myself
With writing, we have second chances.
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Chance Opportunity Writing
Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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Brain Invention Myself Quiet
Most of the times that I think about my relationship to Judaism, I not only accuse myself of a shallowness, but I feel certain that there’s a shallowness there. That’s not a bad thing, really.
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Bad Myself Relationship Shallow Thinking Time
Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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Fill Memories Time
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
I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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Believe Challenge Faith God Myself
We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.
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Feeling Important Love Romance Talk Togetherness
You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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Call Organic Yourself
Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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Head Shy Yourself
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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Appearance Easy Eat Goodness Social Society Way
Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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Animal Dog Happiness Oneself
Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they’re nothing.” “So what’s something?” “Being reliable is something. Being good.
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Feeling Goodness Reliable Trust
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
The French, who love their dogs, sometimes eat their horses. The Spanish, who love their horses, sometimes eat their cows. The Indians, who love their cows, sometimes eat their dogs.
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Animal Irony Time

Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.

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