Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
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I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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We spent our lives making livings.
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She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and she never even loved me. Now that’s love.
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As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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The meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I was the tree, the world was the river.
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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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When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
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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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I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.
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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can’t people say what they mean at the time?
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One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
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Ninety-nine percent of all land animals eaten or used to produce milk and eggs in the United States are factory farmed. So although there are important exceptions, to speak about eating animals today is to speak about factory farming.
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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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