No matter how much I feel, I’m not going to let it out. If I have to cry, I’m gonna cry on the inside. If I have to bleed, I’ll bruise. If my heart starts going crazy, I’m not gonna tell everyone in the world about it. It doesn’t help anything. It just makes everyone’s life worse.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERMost of the times that I think about my relationship to Judaism, I not only accuse myself of a shallowness, but I feel certain that there’s a shallowness there. That’s not a bad thing, really.
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I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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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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The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
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There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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Let love write on you for awhile.
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Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.
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We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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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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I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.
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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?
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There are only some many times you can utter “It does not hurt” before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.
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With writing, we have second chances.
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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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I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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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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Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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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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We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
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I am sure people tell you this constantly but if you looked up ‘incredibly beautiful’ in the dictionary there would be a picture of you.
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If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d’ve done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.
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Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
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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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The 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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