When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERWriters 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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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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Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn’t someone, somewhere, laughing?
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It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about “Eleanor Rigby.” It’s true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong?
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When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
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I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone.
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We spent our lives making livings.
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I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember,
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It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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The mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did.
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Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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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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I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
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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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