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We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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Change Live Ourselves Respond
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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Animal Eat Factory Farm Land Talk
Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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Feeling Fiction Reading Strong Work
I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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Afraid Lose Love Myself Refusal
What does it remember like?
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One Liner Remember
We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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Each Other Talk Way Word
Silently the animal catches our glance. The animal looks at us, and whether we look away or not, we are exposed. Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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Animal Change Expose Live Respond Silence
Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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Day Future Horizon Reach
People with nothing to declare carry the most.
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Carry Declare People Talk
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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Laughter Myself Room Small
I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember,
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Life Lose Myself Remember Try
I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love.
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Food Limitation Love Myself
She laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes.
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Bird Herself Laughter Migrate
Songs are as sad as the listener.
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Listening Sadness Song
If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.
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Communication Music Understand
This is love, she thought, isn’t it? When you notice someone’s absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?
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Absence Hate Himself Love Presence

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