We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERWorthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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I felt shame for living in a nation of unprecedented prosperity-a nation that spends a smaller percentage of income on food than any other civilization has in human history-but in the name of affordability treats the animals it eats with cruelty so extreme it would be illegal if inflicted on a dog.
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I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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Why are you leaving me? He wrote, I do not know how to live. I do not know either but I am trying. I do not know how to try. There were some things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So i buried them and let them hurt me
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I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
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Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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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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The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn’t stop each other on the street to say I love you.
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I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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People with nothing to declare carry the most.
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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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