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I kept thinking how they were all names of dead people, and how names are basically the only thing dead people keep.

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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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I keep thinking how young can you die from old age — Drake
As I watch government at all levels daily eat away at our freedom, I keep thinking how prosperity and government largesse have… — Lyn Nofziger
Men wake up aroused in the morning. We can't help it. We just wake up and we want you. And the women… — Andy Rooney
I'm good at using my face as a canvas… I'll see a photograph of a character and try to copy them on… — Cindy Sherman
I was just thinking how unfortunate it'd be to be a fat girl named Candy. — Zach Galifianakis
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The only thing that really matters in the initial part of my career, the worst mistake I've ever made was try to… — Terrence Howard
Just the other day someone threw a bra duct-taped to a tennis ball. I just stood there, playing guitar, thinking how this… — Dave Grohl
For me too, the periodic table was a passion. ... As a boy, I stood in front of the display for hours,… — Freeman Dyson
One works without thinking how to work. — Jasper Johns
I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies… — Richard Russo
I write the book for one person — for Fiona [Staples, the artist]. I spend a lot of time just thinking how… — Brian K. Vaughan

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