She extended a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
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Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It’s almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.
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One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates.
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It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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And she would say, “Today you believe in God?” And he would say, “Today I believe in love”.
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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.
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The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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Isn’t it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we’re doing what we’re doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?
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She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.
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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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One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It’s already happening.
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If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.
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No matter how much I feel, I’m not going to let it out. If I have to cry, I’m gonna cry on the inside. If I have to bleed, I’ll bruise. If my heart starts going crazy, I’m not gonna tell everyone in the world about it. It doesn’t help anything. It just makes everyone’s life worse.
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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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