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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 stop each other…
- All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.
- 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…
- This is the sixty-nine," I told him, presenting the magazine in front of him. I put my fingers -- two of them -- on the…
- I started inventing things, and then I couldn't stop, like beavers, which I know about. People think they cut down trees so they can build…
- Why are you leaving me? He wrote, I do not know how to live. I do not know either but I am trying. I do…
- I think it's very pretty. Can it be pretty if no one thinks it's pretty? I think it's pretty. If you're the only one? That's…
- But I dig Negroes. I dig them all the way.
- ...he enclosed pieces of string that he used to measure out his body--his head, thigh, forearm, finger, neck, everything. He wanted me to sleep with…
- ...only someone who'd never been an animal would put up a sign saying not to feed them....
- There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.
- She maintained a careful balance by her window, never allowing the men to come too close, never allowing them to stray too far.
- So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in!…
- A few days after we came home from the hospital, I sent a letter to a friend, including a photo of my son and some…
- Words never mean what we want them to mean.
- One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates.
- In the past seven years of love-making he had heard the words "I love you" so many times: from the mouths of widows and children,…
- He was not such a special person. He loved to read very much, and also to write. He was a poet, and he exhibited me…
- I thought, it's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life, because if I'd…
- The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.
- 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…
- Because it was starting to get dark, and because the streets were crowded, I bumped into a googolplex people. Who were they? Where were they…
- What the meat industry figured out is that you don't need healthy animals to make a profit. Sick animals are more profitable... Factory farms calculate…
- Isn't it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we're doing what were doing to our food…
- I brought the birdcages to the windows. I opened the windows, and opened the birdcages. I poured the fish down the drain. I took the…
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster