When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERFood serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable-the saltwater is also tears; the honey not only tastes sweet, but makes us think of sweetness; the matzo is the bread of our affliction.
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We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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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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It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.
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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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The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.
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Everything I did, I did because I thought it was the correct thing to do, I am not a hero, it is true, But I am not a bad person, either.
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Also, I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year, and then you take it off and wear it.
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You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.
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Let love write on you for awhile.
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People with nothing to declare carry the most.
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I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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While it is always possible to wake a person who’s sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
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