Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERAm I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don’t mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.
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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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Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and our nation to choose conscience over ease can.
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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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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. Each second was two hundred yards, to be walked, crawled. You couldn’t see the next hour, it was so far in the distance. Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.
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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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My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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Just to be a functioning adult in the world, we develop all of these layers of protection. When we see homeless people, we don’t cry, even though homeless people probably deserve our tears – you know, it’s a horrible thing.
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There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.
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One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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With writing, we have second chances.
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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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