Razmišljam o svemu što sam učinila.I o svemu što nisam učinila.Pogreške su za mene mrtve.Ali ne mogu povući stvari koje nikada nisam učinila.
Or how he was once found on the well regarded Rabbi's front lawn, bound in white string, and said he tied one around his finger to remember something terribly important, and fearing he would forget th...
Only now do I understand the war against boredom, the lost cause of empty hours, of empty days and nights.
Once upon a time, USDA inspectors had to condemn any bird with such fecal contamination. But about thirty years ago, the poultry industry convinced the USDA to reclassify feces so that it could contin...
On average, Americans eat the equivalent of 21,000 entire animals in a lifetime—one
None of my pets know their own names, what kind of person am I?
None of his colleagues or friends, or former colleagues or former friends, had died. Sometimes it amazed him that he’d managed to live forty-two years without proximity to mortality. And that amazemen...
Non è vero le dissi, ignorando quali sarebbero state le successive parole a uscirmi dalla bocca, ma desiderando che fossero mie, desiderandolo più di quanto avessi mai desiderato che qualcosa esprimes...
No, no. Absolutely not. We had a talk with the rabbi, and now we’re fully in salvage-the-bar-mitzvah mode. You had a talk? You think talk got us out of Egypt or Entebbe? Uh-uh. Plagues and Uzis. Talk...
Nie możemy występować w obronie obojętności i ignorancji. Kolejne pokolenia coraz więcej wiedzą o tym, jak wygląda działalność przemysłu. Żyjemy w czasach, w których krytyczne podejście do chowu przem...
Muchos científicos predicen la debacle total de todas las especies de peces en menos de cincuenta años, mientras se realizan intensos esfuerzos por atrapar, matar y comer más animales marinos
More than any set of practices, factory farming is a mind-set: reduce production costs to the absolute minimum and systematically ignore or externalize such costs as environmental degradation, human d...
Mom said, His spirit is there, and that made me really angry. I told her, Dad didn't have a spirit! He had cells! His memory is there. His memory is here, I said, pointing at my head. Dad had a spirit...
Maybe I'll try to be more patient with morons.
Later that year, when snow started to hide the front steps, when morning became evening as I sat on the sofa, buried under everything I'd lost, I made a fire and used my laughter for kindling: Ha ha h...
L'unica cosa più dolorosa dell'essere obliatori attivi è essere rammentatori inerti.
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.
Jews have become the smartest weakest people in the history of the world. Look, I’m not always right. I realize that. But I’m always strong. And if our history has taught us anything, it’s that it’s m...
It’s easy to close, but almost impossible to close. Think about friends. Think about hobbies. Even ideas. They’re close to us—sometimes so close we think they are part of us—and then, at some point,...
It's always possible to wake someone from sleep, but no amount of noise will wake someone who is pretending to be asleep.