There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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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You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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Every moment before this one depends on this one.
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The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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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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I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
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I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.
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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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I’m sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.
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She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee’s knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anywhere else
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We spent our lives making livings.
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I put my hand on the doorknob because I thought maybe her hand was on the doorknob on the other side.
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A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don’t know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter.
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One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates.
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Most of the times that I think about my relationship to Judaism, I not only accuse myself of a shallowness, but I feel certain that there’s a shallowness there. That’s not a bad thing, really.
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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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