Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERArt can be very political but that can’t be the purpose of art, it can’t be the driving force. It isn’t with any of the books that I love, anyway.
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Not responding is a response–we are equally responsible for what we don’t do. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle.
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This is my heart. You are touching it with your left hand. You are touching it with your left hand, not because you are left-handed, although you might be, but because I am holding it against my heart. What you are feeling is the beating of my heart. It is what keeps me alive.
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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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With writing, we have second chances.
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We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? Do we all make the same mistakes, or has one of us gotten it right, or even just a bit less wrong, am I the imposter?
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I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.
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She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.
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Art can be very political but that can’t be the purpose of art, it can’t be the driving force. It isn’t with any of the books that I love, anyway.
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She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes.
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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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People with nothing to declare carry the most.
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I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.
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I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.
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Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat.
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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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I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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We often use technology to save time, but increasingly, it either takes the saved time along with it, or makes the saved time less present, intimate and rich. I worry that the closer the world gets to our fingertips, the further it gets from our hearts.
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Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don’t know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter.
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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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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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