... the man took my passport ...

... the man took my passport and asked me the purpose of my visit, I wrote in my daybook, \'To mourn,\' and then, \'To try to live,\' he gave me a look and asked if I would consider that business or pleasure, I wrote, \'Neither.\' \'For how long do you plan to mourn and try to live?\' I wrote, \'For the rest of my life.
... the man took my passport and asked me the purpose of my visit, I wrote in my daybook, 'To mourn,' and then, 'To try to live,' he gave me a look and asked if I would consider that business or pleasure, I wrote, 'Neither.' 'For how long do you plan to mourn and try to live?' I wrote, 'For the rest of my life.
 Jonathan Safran Foer

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I realized that your mother couldn't see the emptiness, she couldn't see anything...All of the words I'd written to her over all of those years, had I never said anything to hear at all?
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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 our eating from radiating influence even if we want to.
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Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.
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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 and history, but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in, the more strongly we will want to follow our best instincts.
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I tried the key in all the doors, even though he said he didn't recognize it. It's not that I didn't trust him, becuase I did. It's that at the end of my search I wanted to be able to say: I don't know how I could have tried harder.
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