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It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us…on the inside, looking out.

Jonathan Safran Foer

My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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Life Myself Story
There are still many different ways to get stuck, existentially stuck. Feeling like, “This is worthless. I’m wasting my time, and I would be wasting the time of someone who tried to read this.” It happens all the time.
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Different Myself Reading Wasted Time Way Worth
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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Factory People Reality See Willing
I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
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Hold On Lose Myself
When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.
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Life Love Necessary Possible Yourself
I tried the key in all the doors, even though he said he didn’t recognize it. It’s not that I didn’t trust him, becuase I did. It’s that at the end of my search I wanted to be able to say: I don’t know how I could have tried harder.
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Hard Key Myself Trust Try
The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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Animal God Love
With writing, we have second chances.
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Chance Opportunity Writing
The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.
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Bruise Earn Feeling Hate Life Yourself
Just to be a functioning adult in the world, we develop all of these layers of protection. When we see homeless people, we don’t cry, even though homeless people probably deserve our tears – you know, it’s a horrible thing.
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Adult Cry Deserve Development Function Home Ourselves People World
Am 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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Dreams End Eyes Myself Person World
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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Appearance Easy Eat Goodness Social Society Way
Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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Children Feed Myself Worth
Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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Feeling Fiction Reading Strong Work
Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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Deep Equality Respond Silence
If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.
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Camera Hunting Thrill

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us…on the inside, looking out.

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It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us…on the inside, looking out.

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