Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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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Also, I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year, and then you take it off and wear it.
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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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Why are you leaving me? He wrote, I do not know how to live. I do not know either but I am trying. I do not know how to try. There were some things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So i buried them and let them hurt me
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If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.
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She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.
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She said, “Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don’t need?” I said, “It depends on what it means to need.
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And she would say, “Today you believe in God?” And he would say, “Today I believe in love”.
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I dreamt four nights ago of clock hands descending from the universe like rain, of the moon as a green eye, of mirrors and insects, of a love that never withdrew. It was not the feeling of completeness that I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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I didn’t feel empty. I wished I’d felt empty. … I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.
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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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I don’t think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
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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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It’s so beautiful at this hour. The sun is low, the shadows are long, the air is cold and clean. You won’t be awake for another five hours, but I can’t help feeling that we’re sharing this clear and beautiful morning.
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Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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