The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERMy point is that there are a lot of forces, like the media and the general political rhetoric tells us we should have more. That we should do better than our parents and have a bigger house or a better car.
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It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.
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The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that “beauty always takes place in the particular.” Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.
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Everything else happened – why not the things that could have?
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We are lying to ourselves and to each other. Lying about what? I don’t care if we’re lying. I am a bad person. I don’t care. I don’t care what you are.
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We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.
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I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn’t even matter if I existed at all.
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Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.
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We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.
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Every moment before this one depends on this one.
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I felt shame for living in a nation of unprecedented prosperity-a nation that spends a smaller percentage of income on food than any other civilization has in human history-but in the name of affordability treats the animals it eats with cruelty so extreme it would be illegal if inflicted on a dog.
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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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If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.
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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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I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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