One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERThe French, who love their dogs, sometimes eat their horses. The Spanish, who love their horses, sometimes eat their cows. The Indians, who love their cows, sometimes eat their dogs.
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In the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you’ve lost, what can you say about that?
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We are not long-term beings. Not heroes of romances in many volumes. For one gesture, for one word alone, we shall make the effort. We openly admit: our creations will be temporary. We shall have this as our aim: a gesture.
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With writing, we have second chances.
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I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember,
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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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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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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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The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It’s already happening.
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We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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Sometimes I imagined stitching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love? Why does anyone ever make love?
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We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.
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There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? Do we all make the same mistakes, or has one of us gotten it right, or even just a bit less wrong, am I the imposter?
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I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.
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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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