With writing, we have second chances.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERThe more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn’t stop each other on the street to say I love you.
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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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Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It’s almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.
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As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.
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Every moment before this one depends on this one.
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I didn’t feel empty. I wished I’d felt empty. … I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.
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Am 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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Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable-the saltwater is also tears; the honey not only tastes sweet, but makes us think of sweetness; the matzo is the bread of our affliction.
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I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
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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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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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While it is always possible to wake a person who’s sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
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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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My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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