I tried the key in all the doors, even though he said he didn’t recognize it. It’s not that I didn’t trust him, becuase I did. It’s that at the end of my search I wanted to be able to say: I don’t know how I could have tried harder.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERNinety-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 hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.
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When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
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I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
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Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?
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We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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She said, “Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don’t need?” I said, “It depends on what it means to need.
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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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I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
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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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Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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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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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
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Let love write on you for awhile.
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