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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…
- How would you judge an artist who mutilated animals in a gallery because it was visually arresting? How riveting would the sound of a tortured…
- Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
- I write because I want to end my loneliness. Books make people less alone. That, before and after everything else, is what books do. They…
- Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write…
- Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids…
- I want to talk about God in a literary way. But I think I would have a very hard time praying to God.
- 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.
- 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,…
- We need enormous pockets, pockets big enough for our families and our friends, and even the people who aren't on our lists, people we've never…
- ART Art is that thing having to do only with itself—the product of a successful attempt to make a work of art. Unfortunately, there are…
- It's so hard to express yourself.' I understand this.' I want to express myself.' The same is true for me.' I'm looking for my voice.'…
- I think it's very pretty. Can it be pretty if no one thinks it's pretty? I think it's pretty. If you're the only one? That's…
- I know you look both ways before you cross the street, but I want you to look both ways a second time, because I told…
- Cher Marcel, Allô. I am Oskar's mom. I have thought about it a ton, and I have decided that it isn't obvious why Oskar should…
- I could tell that Mom was dreaming, but I didn't want to know what she was dreaming about, because I had enough of my own…
- 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…
- When I heard your organization was recording testimonies, I knew I had to come. She died in my arms, saying 'I don't want to die.'…
- Which, then, brings us closer to what we want to communicate: saying what we intend, or trying to say the opposite?
- And here I am, instead of there. I'm sitting in this library, thousands of miles from my life, writing another letter I know I won't…
- We were quiet on the car ride home. I turned on the radio and found a station playing "Hey Jude." It was true, I didn't…
- And nothing inspires as much shame as being a parent. Children confront us with our paradoxes and hypocrisies, and we are exposed. You need to…
- Words never mean what we want them to mean.
- We tried so hard. We were always trying to help each other. But not because we were helpless. He needed to get things for me,…
- I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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