The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERAm I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don’t mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.
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It’s so beautiful at this hour. The sun is low, the shadows are long, the air is cold and clean. You won’t be awake for another five hours, but I can’t help feeling that we’re sharing this clear and beautiful morning.
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Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can’t people say what they mean at the time?
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But I believe that things are extremely complicated, and her looking over me was as complicated as anything could ever be. But it was also incredibly simple.
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Everything that’s born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they’re all on fire, and we’re all trapped.
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I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.
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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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Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
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I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.
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It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.
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Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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I do think ordinariness is, in a way, the enemy, but not ordinariness as the opposite of flamboyance.
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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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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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