Of course food has an important cultural use in families, but there are things that have more important cultural uses in families, and broadening the conversation out simply from what’s reasonable also allows in other things.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI 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.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!
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Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
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I have so much to say to you. I want to begin at the beginning, because that is what you deserve. I want to tell you everything, without leaving out a single detail. But where is the beginning? And what is everything?
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Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
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It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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And she would say, “Today you believe in God?” And he would say, “Today I believe in love”.
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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. Each second was two hundred yards, to be walked, crawled. You couldn’t see the next hour, it was so far in the distance. Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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She said, “Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don’t need?” I said, “It depends on what it means to need.
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Let love write on you for awhile.
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Not responding is a response–we are equally responsible for what we don’t do. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle.
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It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.
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Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.
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But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
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She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and she never even loved me. Now that’s love.
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We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
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She extended a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
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I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
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My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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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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Everything that’s born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they’re all on fire, and we’re all trapped.
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I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
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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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The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It’s already happening.
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