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We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.

Jonathan Safran Foer

It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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Challenge Eat Myself
Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?
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Destiny Fate Life
It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.
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Imagination Thinking Yourself
Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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Fear Order Time Yourself
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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Asleep Person Possible Sleep Wake Willing
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
Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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Existence Love Myself Try
And she would say, “Today you believe in God?” And he would say, “Today I believe in love”.
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Believe God Love Myself
Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
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Goodness Hope People Time Yourself
Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn’t matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?
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Decision Eat Goodness Literature Suffering Taste Yourself
I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
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Happiness Myself Thinking Time
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
Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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Existence Need Protection Yourself
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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Day Oneself Start Worst
We aren’t exactly emptying the oceans; it’s more like clear-cutting a forest with thousands of species to create massive fields with one type of soybean.
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Empty Exact Forest Ocean Oneself Type
One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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Erase Happiness Oneself Pain

We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.

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