One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI woke up once in the middle of the night, and Buckminster’s paws were on my eyelids. He must have been feeling my nightmares.
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I didn’t feel empty. I wished I’d felt empty. … I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.
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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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And she would say, “Today you believe in God?” And he would say, “Today I believe in love”.
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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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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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One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
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Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
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You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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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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Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine’s Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.
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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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Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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It 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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