Let love write on you for awhile.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERThe 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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Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and our nation to choose conscience over ease can.
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Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn’t matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?
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I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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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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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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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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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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I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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And she would say, “Today you believe in God?” And he would say, “Today I believe in love”.
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With writing, we have second chances.
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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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I’m sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.
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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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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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