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We eat as sons and daughters, as families, as communities, as generations, as nations, and increasingly as a globe. We can't stop…
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August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly…
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SADNESSES OF THE INTELLECT: Sadness of being misunderstood [sic]; Humor sadness; Sadness of love wit[hou]t release; Sadne[ss of be]ing smart; Sadness of…
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The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely…
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Murdering someone would surely prove that you are capable of killing, but it wouldn't be the most reasonable way to understand why…
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Be the instrument playing the sound of your life's passing
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I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it…
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Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the number one…
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When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
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How would you judge an artist who mutilated animals in a gallery because it was visually arresting? How riveting would the sound…
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The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't…
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Everyone is always in need of something that another person can give, be it undivided attention, a kind word or deep empathy.…
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Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions; Yet others of our most romantic schemes, Are…
— Thomas Hood
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The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and…
— Umberto Eco
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Even the most scientific investigator in science, the most thoroughgoing Positivist, cannot dispense with fiction; he must at least make use of…
— Havelock Ellis
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There have already been published by the bucketsful such brazen lies and utter fictions about me that I would long since have…
— Albert Einstein
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All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us…
— Jeremy Northam
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It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions.
— Frank Kermode
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No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions…
— Wallace Stegner
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The future is just your hope, expectation. And when this life is not fulfilling you start looking further, beyond death. All these…
— Rajneesh
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Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.
— Paul Auster
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Sometimes I think the only memories I have are those that I’ve created around photographs of me as a child. Maybe I’m…
— Sally Mann
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We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most…
— Plato
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Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the…
— Manuel Puig
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