The French, who love their dogs, sometimes eat their horses. The Spanish, who love their horses, sometimes eat their cows. The Indians, who love their cows, sometimes eat their dogs.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERHe promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.
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Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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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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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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Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat.
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It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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With writing, we have second chances.
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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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I don’t think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
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I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
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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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We are lying to ourselves and to each other. Lying about what? I don’t care if we’re lying. I am a bad person. I don’t care. I don’t care what you are.
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We are not long-term beings. Not heroes of romances in many volumes. For one gesture, for one word alone, we shall make the effort. We openly admit: our creations will be temporary. We shall have this as our aim: a gesture.
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You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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Most of the times that I think about my relationship to Judaism, I not only accuse myself of a shallowness, but I feel certain that there’s a shallowness there. That’s not a bad thing, really.
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If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d’ve done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.
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