I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: “Do you like me?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERIt’s so beautiful at this hour. The sun is low, the shadows are long, the air is cold and clean. You won’t be awake for another five hours, but I can’t help feeling that we’re sharing this clear and beautiful morning.
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With writing, we have second chances.
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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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Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.
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I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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Let love write on you for awhile.
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We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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And she would say, “Today you believe in God?” And he would say, “Today I believe in love”.
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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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She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.
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Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable-the saltwater is also tears; the honey not only tastes sweet, but makes us think of sweetness; the matzo is the bread of our affliction.
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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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