Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERThe bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.
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It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us…on the inside, looking out.
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I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
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The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn’t stop each other on the street to say I love you.
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In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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This is my heart. You are touching it with your left hand. You are touching it with your left hand, not because you are left-handed, although you might be, but because I am holding it against my heart. What you are feeling is the beating of my heart. It is what keeps me alive.
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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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You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
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Let love write on you for awhile.
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Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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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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No matter how much I feel, I’m not going to let it out. If I have to cry, I’m gonna cry on the inside. If I have to bleed, I’ll bruise. If my heart starts going crazy, I’m not gonna tell everyone in the world about it. It doesn’t help anything. It just makes everyone’s life worse.
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Ninety-nine percent of all land animals eaten or used to produce milk and eggs in the United States are factory farmed. So although there are important exceptions, to speak about eating animals today is to speak about factory farming.
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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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And she would say, “Today you believe in God?” And he would say, “Today I believe in love”.
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