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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.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Of course food has an important cultural use in families, but there are things that have more important cultural uses in families, and broadening the conversation out simply from what’s reasonable also allows in other things.
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Allow Conversation Culture Family Food Important Reason Simplicity
The meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I was the tree, the world was the river.
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Leave Meaning Myself River Start Thinking Tree
I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember,
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Life Lose Myself Remember Try
I wasn’t trying to invent better and better homes, but to show her that homes didn’t matter, we could live in any home, in any city, in any country, in any century, and be happy, as if the world were just what we lived in.
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Better Country Home Invention Live World
In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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Manufacture Myself Truth Wall
What does it remember like?
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One Liner Remember
Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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Deep Equality Respond Silence
I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: “Do you like me?
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Arrangement Myself Question World
The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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Himself Place Room World
I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love.
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Food Limitation Love Myself
He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that you could recommend.
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Admire Book Feeling Reading Yourself
I never confused what I had with what I was.
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Confusion Myself
One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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Erase Happiness Oneself Pain
If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.
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Communication Music Understand
Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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Hand Myself Time Training
I tried the key in all the doors, even though he said he didn’t recognize it. It’s not that I didn’t trust him, becuase I did. It’s that at the end of my search I wanted to be able to say: I don’t know how I could have tried harder.
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Hard Key Myself Trust Try

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