Every moment before this one depends on this one.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.
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I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.
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Isn’t it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we’re doing what we’re doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?
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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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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 have so much to say to you. I want to begin at the beginning, because that is what you deserve. I want to tell you everything, without leaving out a single detail. But where is the beginning? And what is everything?
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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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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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My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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I 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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The mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did.
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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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Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.
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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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