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It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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
Ironically, the utterly unselective omnivore — “I’m easy; I’ll eat anything” — can appear more socially sensitive than the individual who tries to eat in a way that is good for society.
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Appearance Easy Eat Goodness Social Society Way
Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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Hear Return Time Yourself
I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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Blank Book Infinite Myself Time
The French, who love their dogs, sometimes eat their horses. The Spanish, who love their horses, sometimes eat their cows. The Indians, who love their cows, sometimes eat their dogs.
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Animal Irony Time
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
There are still many different ways to get stuck, existentially stuck. Feeling like, “This is worthless. I’m wasting my time, and I would be wasting the time of someone who tried to read this.” It happens all the time.
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Different Myself Reading Wasted Time Way Worth
You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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Call Organic Yourself
Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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Children Feed Myself Worth
Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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Feeling Fiction Reading Strong Work
I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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Alone Myself
The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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Himself Place Room World
I dreamt four nights ago of clock hands descending from the universe like rain, of the moon as a green eye, of mirrors and insects, of a love that never withdrew. It was not the feeling of completeness that I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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Complete Dreams Fantasy Feeling Myself Universe
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 have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.
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Children Myself Need Past
We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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Believe Cook God

It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.

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