Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organiz…

Jonathan Safran Foer
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Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us. ✨ Speechless by Jonathan Safran Foer, www.newyorker.com. September 12, 2011.
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