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I usually write away from home, in coffee shops, on trains, on planes, in friends' houses. I like places where there's stuff going on that…

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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…
August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly…
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…
The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely…
Murdering someone would surely prove that you are capable of killing, but it wouldn't be the most reasonable way to understand why…
Be the instrument playing the sound of your life's passing
I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it…
Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the number one…
When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
How would you judge an artist who mutilated animals in a gallery because it was visually arresting? How riveting would the sound…
The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't…
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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Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come… — Arthur C. Clarke
Jesus was not a whisperer. No one ever saw Him close to His neighbor's ear, looking stealthily around lest some one should… — Samuel Logan Brengle
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the… — Ernest Hemingway
How charmed I am when I overhear a German word which I understand! — Mark Twain
My discussion with Keith Richards about the creative process led me to believe that there's an invisible presence of a stream of… — Billy Gibbons
In a city where you walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents will happen, you'll overhear… — Jason Schwartzman
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler
Once I have the idea for a story. I start collecting all kinds of helpful information and storing it in three-ring notebooks.… — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
What I would give, I thought, to have been present as Elizabeth Keckley measured Mary Lincoln for a new gown, to overhear… — Jennifer Chiaverini
Once you're into a story everything seems to apply-what you overhear on a city bus is exactly what your character would say… — Eudora Welty
In the homes of many Western Christians, hours are sometimes spent listening to worldly music. In our homes loud music can also… — Richard Wurmbrand
We'd go to the fraternity house. It was a good place to practice. But we really wanted the kids to overhear us.… — Art Garfunkel

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