Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn’t matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI do think ordinariness is, in a way, the enemy, but not ordinariness as the opposite of flamboyance.
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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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It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all.
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With writing, we have second chances.
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As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.
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Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.
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We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
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Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
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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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Why are you leaving me? He wrote, I do not know how to live. I do not know either but I am trying. I do not know how to try. There were some 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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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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I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
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