"Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.












Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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"You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
"I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
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"When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much. A cal...
"I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
"When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much. A cal...
"...is ignorance bliss, I don't know, but it's so painful to think, and tell me, what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking eve...
"Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly if there wasn't someone, somewhere, l...