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.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.
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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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While it is always possible to wake a person who’s sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
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Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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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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We spent our lives making livings.
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The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
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When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.
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My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
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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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I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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