But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERCruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.
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I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.
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When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much.
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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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You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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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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Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
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The meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I was the tree, the world was the river.
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Food for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, religion, history, and, of course, love. As if the fruit she always offered us were picked from the destroyed brances of out family tree.
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I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love.
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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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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 never confused what I had with what I was.
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It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
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