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?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERMemory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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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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Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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Only humans can cry tears.
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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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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all.
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I never confused what I had with what I was.
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Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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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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I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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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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Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
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Every moment before this one depends on this one.
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I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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