Isn’t it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we’re doing what we’re doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERFood 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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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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There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.
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It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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Only humans can cry tears.
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Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?
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There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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Why are you leaving me? He wrote, I do not know how to live. I do not know either but I am trying. I do not know how to try. There were some things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So i buried them and let them hurt me
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One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember,
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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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It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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He couldn’t bear to live, but he couldn’t bear to die. He couldn’t bear the thought of he making love to someone else, but neither could he bear the absence of the thought. And as for the note, he couldn’t bear to keep it, but he couldn’t bear to destroy it either.
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But I believe that things are extremely complicated, and her looking over me was as complicated as anything could ever be. But it was also incredibly simple.
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As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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I never confused what I had with what I was.
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