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There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasn't happened: The factory farm industry, allied with the pharmaceutical industry, has more power than public-health professionals. (Jonathan Safran Foer)
We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family and history but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in, the more able we will be to follow our best instincts. View quote
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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly. View quote
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For a long time, I thought I would like to be a doctor. Such a good profession. So explicitly good. Never a waste of time. View quote
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I've never particularly liked bankers. View quote
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It feels like a moment I've lived a thousand times before, as if everything is familiar, right up to the moment of my death, that it will happen again an infinite number of times, that we will meet, marry, have our children, succeed in the ways we have, fail in the ways we have, all exactly the same, always unable to change a thing. I am again at the bottom of an unstoppable wheel, and when I feel my eyes close for death, as they have and will a thousand times, I awake. View quote
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I feel too much. That's what's going on." "Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel the wrong ways? "My insides don't match up with my outsides." "Do anyone's inside and outsides match up?" "I don't know. I'm only me." "Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and the outside." "But it's worse for me." "I wonder if everyone thinks it's worse for him." "Probably. But it really is worse for me. View quote
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Ray Black was in prison, so we weren't able to talk to him. I did some research on the internet and found out that he was in prison because he murdered two children after he raped them. There were also pictures of the dead children, and even though I knew it would only hurt me to look at them, I did. I printed them out and put them in *Stuff That Happened To Me*, right after the picture of Jean-Pierre Haigneré, the french astronaut who had to be carried from his spacecraft after returning form the MIR spacestation, because gravity isn't only what makes us fall, it's what makes our muscles strong. View quote
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Everything that's born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they're all on fire, and we're all trapped. View quote
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I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love. View quote
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My wife and I have chosen to bring up our children as vegetarians. In another time or place, we might have made a different decision. But the realities of our present moment compelled us to make that choice. (Jonathan Safran Foer)
...and when is enough proof enough? View quote
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The question, I've come to think, is not what inspires one to change, but what inspires one to remain changed. View quote
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Since the world has changed so much, the same values don't lead to the same choices anymore. View quote
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...there are only some many times you can utter "It does not hurt" before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt. View quote
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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? View quote
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I didn't feel empty. I wished I'd felt empty. ... I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone. View quote
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I tried the key in all the doors, even though he said he didn't recognize it. It's not that I didn't trust him, becuase I did. It's that at the end of my search I wanted to be able to say: I don't know how I could have tried harder. View quote
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I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things. View quote
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Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn't have to invent a thing. View quote
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I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem. (Jonathan Safran Foer)
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. View quote
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We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things. View quote
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Sometimes you have to put your fears in order. View quote
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I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone. I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it? What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming? View quote
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