Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERHe was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that you could recommend.
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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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The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.
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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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So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!
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I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.
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Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable-the saltwater is also tears; the honey not only tastes sweet, but makes us think of sweetness; the matzo is the bread of our affliction.
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Let love write on you for awhile.
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I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.
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I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
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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 felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone.
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It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all.
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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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People with nothing to declare carry the most.
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