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.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERMy point is that there are a lot of forces, like the media and the general political rhetoric tells us we should have more. That we should do better than our parents and have a bigger house or a better car.
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I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: “Do you like me?
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It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can’t people say what they mean at the time?
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This is my heart. You are touching it with your left hand. You are touching it with your left hand, not because you are left-handed, although you might be, but because I am holding it against my heart. What you are feeling is the beating of my heart. It is what keeps me alive.
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I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
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As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!
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Isn’t it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we’re doing what we’re doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?
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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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One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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We aren’t exactly emptying the oceans; it’s more like clear-cutting a forest with thousands of species to create massive fields with one type of soybean.
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I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.
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