Ninety-nine percent of all land animals eaten or used to produce milk and eggs in the United States are factory farmed. So although there are important exceptions, to speak about eating animals today is to speak about factory farming.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERThe hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee’s knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anywhere else
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Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second.
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With writing, we have second chances.
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I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.
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Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine’s Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.
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It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about “Eleanor Rigby.” It’s true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong?
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It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
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Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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