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Jonathan Safran Foer

"I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things."

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"I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things."

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"And, beginning to grind his teeth again, Pyotr Petrovich admitted that he'd been a fool--but only to himself, of course."

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"Ah me!" said he, "what might have been is not what is!"

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"She said, "Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don't need?" I said, "It depends on what it means to need."
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