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" These little daily choices that we're so used to thinking are irrelevant are the most important thing we do all day long. "

Jonathan Safran Foer

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" People don't care enough. They don't get worked up enough. They don't get angry enough. They don't get passionate enough. I'd rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it. "

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" It's hard to draw clear lines between writing and life and I don't think it is necessary to or necessarily good to. "

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