Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERThis 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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In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
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The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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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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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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I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love.
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As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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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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Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
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We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.
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We are not long-term beings. Not heroes of romances in many volumes. For one gesture, for one word alone, we shall make the effort. We openly admit: our creations will be temporary. We shall have this as our aim: a gesture.
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We are lying to ourselves and to each other. Lying about what? I don’t care if we’re lying. I am a bad person. I don’t care. I don’t care what you are.
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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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