Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERNot responding is a response–we are equally responsible for what we don’t do. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle.
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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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In the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you’ve lost, what can you say about that?
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Just to be a functioning adult in the world, we develop all of these layers of protection. When we see homeless people, we don’t cry, even though homeless people probably deserve our tears – you know, it’s a horrible thing.
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Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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He couldn’t bear to live, but he couldn’t bear to die. He couldn’t bear the thought of he making love to someone else, but neither could he bear the absence of the thought. And as for the note, he couldn’t bear to keep it, but he couldn’t bear to destroy it either.
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Songs are as sad as the listener.
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I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
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I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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The French, who love their dogs, sometimes eat their horses. The Spanish, who love their horses, sometimes eat their cows. The Indians, who love their cows, sometimes eat their dogs.
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There were 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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Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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People with nothing to declare carry the most.
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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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