It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us…on the inside, looking out.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOEREvery 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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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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Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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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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Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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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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Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.
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There are still many different ways to get stuck, existentially stuck. Feeling like, “This is worthless. I’m wasting my time, and I would be wasting the time of someone who tried to read this.” It happens all the time.
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One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates.
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I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.
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As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.
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I am sure people tell you this constantly but if you looked up ‘incredibly beautiful’ in the dictionary there would be a picture of you.
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I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.
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Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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