I am sure people tell you this constantly but if you looked up ‘incredibly beautiful’ in the dictionary there would be a picture of you.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOEREverything else happened – why not the things that could have?
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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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But I believe that things are extremely complicated, and her looking over me was as complicated as anything could ever be. But it was also incredibly simple.
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I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.
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Art can be very political but that can’t be the purpose of art, it can’t be the driving force. It isn’t with any of the books that I love, anyway.
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What does it remember like?
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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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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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As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
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Everything I did, I did because I thought it was the correct thing to do, I am not a hero, it is true, But I am not a bad person, either.
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But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
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I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
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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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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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It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all.
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