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I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.
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Ability Choice Cruelty Ignorance Understand
In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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Conversation End Family Father Myself
Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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Meaning Word
I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
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Different Hate Myself
Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn’t someone, somewhere, laughing?
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Laughter Myself Room Small
Only humans can cry tears.
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Cry Human Tears
I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
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Forgiveness Leave Myself Return
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.
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Illumination Light Myself Past Side
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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Appreciation Division Genius Infinte Sadness Separate
She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee’s knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anywhere else
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Animal Born Color Different Herself
She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and she never even loved me. Now that’s love.
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Herself Love Myself Togetherness
I dreamt four nights ago of clock hands descending from the universe like rain, of the moon as a green eye, of mirrors and insects, of a love that never withdrew. It was not the feeling of completeness that I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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Complete Dreams Fantasy Feeling Myself Universe
I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love.
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Food Limitation Love Myself
Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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Feeling Fiction Reading Strong Work
It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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Love Missing Tragedy Yourself
She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes.
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Bird Herself Laughter Migrate
Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn’t matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?
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Decision Eat Goodness Literature Suffering Taste Yourself
There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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Understand Wrong Yourself
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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Animal Eat Factory Farm Land Talk
We aren’t exactly emptying the oceans; it’s more like clear-cutting a forest with thousands of species to create massive fields with one type of soybean.
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Empty Exact Forest Ocean Oneself Type
I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember,
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Life Lose Myself Remember Try
He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that you could recommend.
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Admire Book Feeling Reading Yourself
I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
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Happiness Myself Thinking Time
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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Alone Feeling Myself Universe
We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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Each Other Talk Way Word
As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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Alive Myself Thinking
I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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Life Live Myself One Liner Regret

I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.

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I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.

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