Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us. (Jonathan Safran Foer)

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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