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I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.

Jonathan Safran Foer

The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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Animal God Love
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?
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Decision Eat Goodness Literature Suffering Taste Yourself
The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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Himself Place Room World
But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
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Come Explanation Mend Myself
Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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Children Feed Myself Worth
I’m sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.
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Ability Hold On Important Myself Sorry
The meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I was the tree, the world was the river.
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Leave Meaning Myself River Start Thinking Tree
It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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Love Missing Tragedy Yourself
It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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Challenge Eat Myself
Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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Existence Need Protection Yourself
The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.
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Bruise Earn Feeling Hate Life Yourself
It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about “Eleanor Rigby.” It’s true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong?
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Lonely Myself People Start Wonder
Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It’s almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.
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Car Design Faith Writing
There are only some many times you can utter “It does not hurt” before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.
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Beginning Hurt Time Yourself
I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
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Day Myself Wash
Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat.
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Animal Cat Dog Farm Illegal Practice Treat Way

I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.

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