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Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It…

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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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The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten. — Teju Cole
The past is a palimpsest. Early memories are always obscured by accumulations of later knowledge. — Pat Barker
What's left is palimpsest—one memory bleeding into another, overwriting it. — Natasha Trethewey
Look at the blogosphere - the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration. — A.C. Grayling
Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulations of a lifetime gather there. In places… — Jeanette Winterson
Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by… — George Orwell
In the spring or warmer weather when the snow thaws in the woods the tracks of winter reappear on slender pedestals and… — Cormac McCarthy
I will write in words of fire. I will write them on your skin. I will write about desire. Write beginnings, write… — Neil Gaiman
Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history. — Russell Hoban

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