My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI didn’t feel empty. I wished I’d felt empty. … I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.
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We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.
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You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
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You do not have to utter anything you do not want to utter,” I told her, and she said, “Then I would never utter another word again.” “You do not have to do anything that you do not want to do.” “Then I would never do anything again.
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Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn’t someone, somewhere, laughing?
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The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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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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I didn’t feel empty. I wished I’d felt empty. … I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.
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Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It’s already happening.
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I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.
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I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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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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It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.
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