I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.
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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One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.
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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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When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.
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In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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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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I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love.
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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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Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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I woke up once in the middle of the night, and Buckminster’s paws were on my eyelids. He must have been feeling my nightmares.
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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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She extended a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
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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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Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable-the saltwater is also tears; the honey not only tastes sweet, but makes us think of sweetness; the matzo is the bread of our affliction.
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One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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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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The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that “beauty always takes place in the particular.” Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.
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Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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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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As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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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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Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.
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I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
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