Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don’t mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERIn the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you’ve lost, what can you say about that?
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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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I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
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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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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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Only humans can cry tears.
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Art can be very political but that can’t be the purpose of art, it can’t be the driving force. It isn’t with any of the books that I love, anyway.
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I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.
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Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.
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Food for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, religion, history, and, of course, love. As if the fruit she always offered us were picked from the destroyed brances of out family tree.
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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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Every moment before this one depends on this one.
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It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.
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One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.
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