Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERWe are lying to ourselves and to each other. Lying about what? I don’t care if we’re lying. I am a bad person. I don’t care. I don’t care what you are.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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I put my hand on the doorknob because I thought maybe her hand was on the doorknob on the other side.
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I do think ordinariness is, in a way, the enemy, but not ordinariness as the opposite of flamboyance.
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Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn’t matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?
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Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.
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Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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Only humans can cry tears.
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You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
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I don’t think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
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I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.
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I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.
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