If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d’ve done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERIt 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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The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn’t stop each other on the street to say I love you.
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Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
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Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. Each second was two hundred yards, to be walked, crawled. You couldn’t see the next hour, it was so far in the distance. Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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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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One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine’s Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.
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There are only some many times you can utter “It does not hurt” before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.
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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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There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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What does it remember like?
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I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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