I have so much to say to you. I want to begin at the beginning, because that is what you deserve. I want to tell you everything, without leaving out a single detail. But where is the beginning? And what is everything?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERIt’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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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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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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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 felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone.
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I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember,
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But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
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Isn’t it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we’re doing what we’re doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?
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If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.
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Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.
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