We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERArt can be very political but that can’t be the purpose of art, it can’t be the driving force. It isn’t with any of the books that I love, anyway.
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Everything I did, I did because I thought it was the correct thing to do, I am not a hero, it is true, But I am not a bad person, either.
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She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.
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I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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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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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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She said, “Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don’t need?” I said, “It depends on what it means to need.
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Ironically, the utterly unselective omnivore — “I’m easy; I’ll eat anything” — can appear more socially sensitive than the individual who tries to eat in a way that is good for society.
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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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It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.
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The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
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Sometimes I imagined stitching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love? Why does anyone ever make love?
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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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