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| 6cfae47 | Our windows were open, and the radio had been playing continuously--not one but two Billy Joel songs had come on during our drive--and the air was dense with the humidity of a midwestern summer, weather that even then made me homesick, though it was hard to say for what. Maybe my homesickness was a form of prescience because when I look back, it's the circumstances of this very car ride that I recognize as irretrievable: the experience of d.. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| c0251d1 | Dena seemed about to respond, but instead, she belched again, a smaller belch that seemed unequal as a harbinger to the monstrous chunky gush that erupted from inside her. I held her hair back and looked away as she finished retching. Working with children had made me less squeamish--they were constantly presenting their grubby hands to your, having accidents--but at some point, disgusting was still disgusting, Especially with an adult woma.. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| bd75205 | Yet surely she was as culpable as he was; recalling her casual speculation about when Jasper's wife's grandmother might die and thereby free Jasper and Susan to divorce, Liz wondered if a stronger sign of a relationship's essential corruptness could exist than for its official realization to hinge on the demise of another human being. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 67d1f80 | And I didn't yet understand that just because you can recognize what another person wants and just because that person is older and more powerful than you are, you don't have to give it to them. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 80a9ecc | Of course, now I wonder where I had gotten the idea that for you to participate in a gathering, the other people had to really, really want you to be there and that anything short of rabid enthusiasm on their part meant you'd be a nuisance. Where had I gotten the idea that being a nuisance was that big a deal? Sometimes now I think of all the opportunities I didn't take - to get a manicure in town, to watch television in another dorm, to go.. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 47227f6 | Among the women, a spontaneous cheer went up, which Liz was surprised to find herself joining, and this was when (she was on her fifth drink) she realized both that she was completely drunk--not just tipsy, not merely buzzed--and also that she was much happier than she'd been an hour or two before. She felt a retroactive remorse for all the Eligible contestants she'd deemed trashy and idiotic from the comfort of her living room; apparently,.. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| bc5097a | I wonder if they are the only three in the world: the man who is with you completely, the man who is with you but not with you, the man who will get as close to you as he can without ever becoming yours. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| e654531 | Maybe I have always been, as Vi would subsequently accuse me, someone who creates obstacles for myself than looks around in surprise, wondering where they came from. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| b43f0e8 | I have no idea, of course, that of all the feelings of my youth that would pass, it was this one, of an abundance of time so great as to routinely be unfillable, that would vanish with the least ceremony. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| fdcb35a | And the reason I'm telling you all this is that I want you to know no one in my life has ever made me feel worse about myself than you. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| fa04795 | Did I used to think being pretty was my primary obligation because I was in some way delusional? Or was it that I'd absorbed the messages I was meant to absorb with the same diligence with which I studied? As the mother of a daughter, I hope she won't judge herself as harshly as I judged myself, but her personality is so unlike mine - she is boisterous and outspoken - that I'm not inordinately concerned. | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 05ab56c | There's a belief that to take care of someone else, or to let someone else take care of you--that both are inherently unfeminist. I don't agree. There's no shame in devoting yourself to another person, as long as he devotes himself to you in return." Within" | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 95eb224 | Reading the nurse's name tag, Mr. Bennet replied with fake enthusiasm, "Bernard! We're mourning the death of manners and the rise of overly familiar discourse. How are you?" -- | Curtis Sittenfeld | ||
| 3f49881 | Ted je vic zivych lidi, nez kolik jich za cele dejiny umrelo. Jinak receno, kdyby vsichni najednou chteli hrat Hamleta, tak by nemohli, protoze by nebylo dost lebek! | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 427f024 | I've read every letter that you've sent me these past two years. In return, I've sent you many form letters, with the hope of one day being able to give you the proper response you deserve. But the more letters you wrote to me, and the more of yourself you gave, the more daunting my task became. I'm sitting beneath a pear tree as I dictate this to you, overlooking the orchards of a friend's estate. I've spent the past few days here, recove.. | stephen-hawking | Jonathan Safran Foer | |
| a34df35 | plunged into chance,--that is to say, swallowed up in Providence | providence | Victor Hugo | |
| 9300ec5 | I said, not knowing what the next words out of my mouth would be, but wanting them to be mine, wanting, more than I'd ever wanted anything, to express the center of me to and be understood. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 326bed4 | Compounding Julia's irritation was the fact that Mark and Jennifer were the parents of one of Sam's friends, and thought of Jacob and Julia as their friends, and wanted to have a coffee after to "catch up." Julia liked them and, insofar as she could muster enthusiasm for extrafamilial relations, considered them friends. But she couldn't muster much. At least not until she could catch up with herself." | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 0aededc | Their relationship was defined not by what they could share, but what they couldn't. Between any two beings there is a unique, uncrossable distance, an unenterable sanctuary. Sometimes it takes the shape of aloneness. Sometimes it takes the shape of love. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 190e362 | Little was known, which made what little was known terrifying. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 87db99f | For every ten tuna, sharks, and other large fish that were in our oceans less than a century ago, only one is left. Many scientists predict the total collapse of all fished species in less than fifty years. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| f19fd10 | For meat, milk, and eggs labelled organic, animals must: 1) be raised on organic feed (without most synthetic pesticides/fertilizers) 2) be traced 3) not be fed antibiotics or growth hormones 4) have "access to the outdoors" | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 54e5274 | Why is taste, the crudest of our senses, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other senses? If you stop and think about it, it's crazy. Why doesn't a horny person have as strong a claim to raping an animal as a hungry one does to killing and eating it? | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| b169e21 | The Gypsy girl carved love letters into trees, filling the forest with notes for him. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 4025fa3 | TV guy and sometimes cooker Gordon Ramsay can get pretty macho with baby animals when doing publicity for something he's selling, but you'll never see a puppy peeking out of one of his pots. And though he once said he'd electrocute his children if they became vegetarian, I wonder what his response would be if they poached the family pooch. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| c46ed9c | But even if the average life expectancy continued to increase by one year with each passing year, it would take forever for people to live forever, so probably no one would ever see it. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| e38c1a4 | From 1935 to 1995, the average weight of "broilers" increased by 65%, while their time-to-market dropped 60% and their feed requirements dropped 57%. To gain a sense of the radicalness of this change, imagine human children growing to be 300 pounds in 10 years, while eating only granola bars and Flintstones vitamins." | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 9a35b05 | Animal agriculture is now dominated by the factory farm- 99.9% of chickens raised for meat, 97% of laying hens, 99% of turkeys, 95% of pigs, and 78% of cattle. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 9cfb552 | The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) calculated 24.6 million pounds of antibiotics were fed to chickens, pigs, and other farmed animals, only counting nontherapeutic uses. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 139d1eb | In 1930, more than 20% of the American population was employed in agriculture. Today it's less than 2%. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 75d1bcb | Smithfield spilled more than 20 million gallons of lagoon waste into the New River in North Carolina. The spill remains the largest environmental disaster of its kind and is twice as big as the iconic Exxon Valdez 6 years earlier... at the time of the spill, Smithfield was the 7th largest pork producer in the US; two years later it was the biggest. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| b3c3f4e | Kein briere iz oich a breire. Not to have a choice is also a choice. How will we tell the story of he who never had no choice? At stake is our notion of righteousness, of a life worth saving. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| b672364 | It was scary how quickly and completely his past could be rewritten, or overwritten. All those years felt worthwhile while they were happening, but only a few months on the other side of them and they were a gigantic waste of time. Of a life. It was an almost irrepressible urge of his brain to see the worst in that which had failed. To see it as something that had failed, rather than something that had succeeded until the end. Was he protec.. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 1facd88 | I turned on the radio and found a station playing "Hey Jude." It was true, I didn't want to make it bad. I wanted to take the sad song and make it better. It's just that I didn't know how. After" | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 525b311 | In other words, if everyone wants to play Hamlet all at once, they couldn't because there aren't enough skulls. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| bb49208 | Wolf Blitzer had once again relieved the horrible tension of his purgatorial beard--neither a beard nor not a beard--with yet another new pair of glasses. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| c5bd3e8 | On average, Americans eat the equivalent of 21,000 entire animals in a lifetime--one | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| c13ea34 | Let's assume that we have a set number of days to indent the world with our beliefs, to find and create the beauty that only a finite existence allows for, to wrestle with the question of purpose and wrestle with our answers. (Jonathan Safran Foer, novelist) | Anne Bogart | ||
| 62bec61 | Potatoes have much more staying power than caviar. | simple-life simple-living | Mark Helprin | |
| 53fd7c7 | I used to be an atheist, which means I didn't believe in things that couldn't be observed. I believed that once you're dead, you're dead forever, and you don't feel anything, and you don't even dream. It's not that I believe in things that can't be observed now, because I don't. It's that I believe that things are extremely complicated. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 648fd71 | Hoe destructief moet een culinaire voorkeur zijn, willen we besluiten iets anders te eten? | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 6ac2ced | I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| fc57ec3 | I spent my life learning how to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. | Jonathan Safran Foer | ||
| 665ec4c | I'm telling you all of this because I'll never be your father, and you will always be my child. | Jonathan Safran Foer |