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Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.

Jonathan Safran Foer

When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
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Eat Factory Live Ourselves
Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine’s Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.
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Day Holiday Oneself Thankful
Art can be very political but that can’t be the purpose of art, it can’t be the driving force. It isn’t with any of the books that I love, anyway.
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Art Drive Love Myself Politics Purpose
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
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
With writing, we have second chances.
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Chance Opportunity Writing
Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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Compassionate Truth
What does it remember like?
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One Liner Remember
Songs are as sad as the listener.
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Listening Sadness Song
Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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Children Feed Myself Worth
A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don’t know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter.
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Day Oneself Start Worst
Just to be a functioning adult in the world, we develop all of these layers of protection. When we see homeless people, we don’t cry, even though homeless people probably deserve our tears – you know, it’s a horrible thing.
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Adult Cry Deserve Development Function Home Ourselves People World
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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Admit Effort Goal Human Open Romance Temporary Time Volume
It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can’t people say what they mean at the time?
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Heart Meaning Myself People Pieces Word
Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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Brain Invention Myself Quiet
Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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Feeling Fiction Reading Strong Work

Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.

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