Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERIt made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about “Eleanor Rigby.” It’s true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong?
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Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat.
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You do not have to utter anything you do not want to utter,” I told her, and she said, “Then I would never utter another word again.” “You do not have to do anything that you do not want to do.” “Then I would never do anything again.
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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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In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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I wasn’t trying to invent better and better homes, but to show her that homes didn’t matter, we could live in any home, in any city, in any country, in any century, and be happy, as if the world were just what we lived in.
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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 want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.
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My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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This is love, she thought, isn’t it? When you notice someone’s absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?
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The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.
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I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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We spent our lives making livings.
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I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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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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