When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERChoosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and our nation to choose conscience over ease can.
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Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and our nation to choose conscience over ease can.
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If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.
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Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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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 put my hand on the doorknob because I thought maybe her hand was on the doorknob on the other side.
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She extended a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
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I’m sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.
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Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.
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She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes.
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People with nothing to declare carry the most.
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I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone.
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Only humans can cry tears.
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We are not long-term beings. Not heroes of romances in many volumes. For one gesture, for one word alone, we shall make the effort. We openly admit: our creations will be temporary. We shall have this as our aim: a gesture.
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