Of course food has an important cultural use in families, but there are things that have more important cultural uses in families, and broadening the conversation out simply from what’s reasonable also allows in other things.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERWriters now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It’s almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.
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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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Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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There are only some many times you can utter “It does not hurt” before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.
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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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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 have so much to say to you. I want to begin at the beginning, because that is what you deserve. I want to tell you everything, without leaving out a single detail. But where is the beginning? And what is everything?
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There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.
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Every moment before this one depends on this one.
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So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!
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I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
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I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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I wasn’t trying to invent better and better homes, but to show her that homes didn’t matter, we could live in any home, in any city, in any country, in any century, and be happy, as if the world were just what we lived in.
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One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
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I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: “Do you like me?
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I watched the sheets breathe when she breathed, like how Dad used to say that trees inhale when people exhale, because I was too young to understand the truth about biological processes.
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