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I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember,

Jonathan Safran Foer

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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Food Help Honey Nourish Ourselves Purpose Remember Serve Tears
People with nothing to declare carry the most.
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Carry Declare People Talk
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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Factory People Reality See Willing
Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.
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Ability Choice Cruelty Ignorance Understand
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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Beginning Hurt Time Yourself
I put my hand on the doorknob because I thought maybe her hand was on the doorknob on the other side.
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Hands Myself Side Thinking
Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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Feeling Fiction Reading Strong Work
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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Dreams End Eyes Myself Person World
Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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Deep Equality Respond Silence
My point is that there are a lot of forces, like the media and the general political rhetoric tells us we should have more. That we should do better than our parents and have a bigger house or a better car.
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Better Car Force Home Media Parents Point Politics
Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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Animal Dog Happiness Oneself
I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
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Hold On Lose Myself
Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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Brain Invention Myself Quiet
You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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Call Organic Yourself
Only humans can cry tears.
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Cry Human Tears
Most 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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Bad Myself Relationship Shallow Thinking Time

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