Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERWhile it is always possible to wake a person who’s sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
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I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
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We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
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Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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Of course food has an important cultural use in families, but there are things that have more important cultural uses in families, and broadening the conversation out simply from what’s reasonable also allows in other things.
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This is my heart. You are touching it with your left hand. You are touching it with your left hand, not because you are left-handed, although you might be, but because I am holding it against my heart. What you are feeling is the beating of my heart. It is what keeps me alive.
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I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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While it is always possible to wake a person who’s sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.
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I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.
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I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.
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I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love.
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