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The mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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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Comfortable Experience Organization Scare Word
I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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Afraid Lose Love Myself Refusal
Words never mean what we want them to mean.
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Meaning Word
We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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Each Other Talk Way Word
It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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Challenge Eat Myself
Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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Feeling Fiction Reading Strong Work
Just to be a functioning adult in the world, we develop all of these layers of protection. When we see homeless people, we don’t cry, even though homeless people probably deserve our tears – you know, it’s a horrible thing.
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Adult Cry Deserve Development Function Home Ourselves People World
Food for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, religion, history, and, of course, love. As if the fruit she always offered us were picked from the destroyed brances of out family tree.
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Family Food Herself Offering Terror Tree
The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
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Active Forget Pain Remember
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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Equality Fingers Respond Responsibility Throw Yourself
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
My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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Life Myself Story
I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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Life Live Myself One Liner Regret
We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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Believe Cook God
I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.
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Difference Emotion Feeling Shame Shy Yourself
Silently the animal catches our glance. The animal looks at us, and whether we look away or not, we are exposed. Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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Animal Change Expose Live Respond Silence

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