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- We eat as sons and daughters, as families, as communities, as generations, as nations, and increasingly as a globe. We can't stop our eating from…
- Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
- We often use technology to save time, but increasingly, it either takes the saved time along with it, or makes the saved time less present,…
- Why is taste, the crudest of our senses, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other senses?
- It's a good rule of thumb, it seems to me: if you're not allowed to see where something comes from, don't put it in your…
- We shouldn't be intimidated by someone else's idea of perfection if it will prevent us from taking steps we actively want to take.
- I often think about how my sons will come to know about September 11th. Something overheard? A newspaper image? In school? I would prefer that…
- I usually write away from home, in coffee shops, on trains, on planes, in friends' houses. I like places where there's stuff going on that…
- If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it walls, and we will furnish it…
- You can see the most beautiful things from the observation deck of the Empire State Building. I read somewhere that people on the street are…
- She wants to know if I love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there,…
- The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have…
- You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
- I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect…
- Every night before putting her to sleep, Yankel counts her ribs, as if one might have disappeared in the course of the day and become…
- So she had to satisfy herself with the idea of love - loving the loving of things whose existence she didn't care at all about.…
- ...because he had been waiting for someone to come back to him, so every time someone knocked on the door, he couldn't stop himself from…
- From space, astronauts can see people making love as a tiny speck of light. Not light, exactly, but a glow that could be confused for…
- When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me…
- I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head away from something…
- Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and will be able…
- We laughed and laughed, together and separately, out loud and silently, we were determined to ignore whatever needed to be ignored, to build a new…
- We were trying to make our lives easier, trying, with all our rules, to make life effortless. But a friction began to arise between Nothing…
- You will remember when a bird crashed through the window and fell to the floor. You will remember, those of you who were there, how…
- From the movie "Everything is Illuminated" based on a book by Jonathan Safran Foer: I have reflected many times upon our rigid search. It has…
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