Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERShe said, “Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don’t need?” I said, “It depends on what it means to need.
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I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.
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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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When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
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Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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My wife and I have chosen to bring up our children as vegetarians. In another time or place, we might have made a different decision. But the realities of our present moment compelled us to make that choice.
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In the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you’ve lost, what can you say about that?
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I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.
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Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.
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Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
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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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Everything that’s born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they’re all on fire, and we’re all trapped.
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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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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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