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3c5e1e3
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Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.
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food-safety
non-fiction
vegetarinism
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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2e3e05b
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It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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food-safety
non-fiction
vegetarianism
food
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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1b6f681
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He looks at houses, chateaus, forests, and thinks about the countless generations who used to see those things and who are gone now; and he understands that everything he is seeing is oblivion; pure oblivion, the oblivion whose absolute state will soon be achieved, the moment he himself is gone. And again I think about the obvious idea (that astoundingly obvious idea) that everything that exists (nation, thought, music) can also not exist.
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existence
mortality
non-existence
non-fiction
essay
impermanence
oblivion
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Milan Kundera |
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efefd8a
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They inhabited a lost world of splendour and brutality, a world dominated by religious change, in which there were few saints.
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history
women-s-history
non-fiction
royalty
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Alison Weir |
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8ccf218
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Nonfiction that smells like fiction is neither.
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non-fiction
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David Mitchell |
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a53b3be
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"It was one of those situations I often find myself in while traveling. Something's said by a stranger I've been randomly thrown into contact with, and I want to say, "Listen. I'm with you on most of this, but before we continue, I need to know who you voted for in the last election."
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travel
politics
humor
non-fiction
short-stories
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David Sedaris |
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e9b72a5
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...I relied on an unpublished report by Jose Fernandez-Partagas, a late-twentieth-century meteorologist who recreated for the National Hurricane Center the tracks of many historical hurricanes, among them the Galveston Hurricane. He was a meticulous researcher given to long hours in the library of the University of Miami, where he died on August 25, 1997, in his favorite couch. He had no money, no family, no friends--only hurricanes. The hurricane center claimed his body, had him cremated, and on August 31, 1998, launched his ashes through the drop-port of a P-3 Orion hurricane hunter into the heart of Hurricane Danielle. His remains entered the atmosphere at 28 N., 74.2 W., about three hundred miles due east of Daytona Beach.
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galveston
non-fiction
hurricane
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Erik Larson |
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f14c88b
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Just how common do such savageries have to be for a decent person to be unable to overlook them? If you knew that one in one thousand food animals suffered actions like those described above, would you continue to eat animals? One in one hundred? One in ten?
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science
non-fiction
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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e5c8e4b
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Until quite recently women's histories were largely overlooked but in the wake of feminism there has been increasing interest in retrieving them.
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feminism
history
women-s-history
non-fiction
royalty
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Alison Weir |