This is love, she thought, isn’t it? When you notice someone’s absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERAlso, I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year, and then you take it off and wear it.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.
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Silently the animal catches our glance. The animal looks at us, and whether we look away or not, we are exposed. Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
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Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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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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Ironically, the utterly unselective omnivore — “I’m easy; I’ll eat anything” — can appear more socially sensitive than the individual who tries to eat in a way that is good for society.
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Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.
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But I believe that things are extremely complicated, and her looking over me was as complicated as anything could ever be. But it was also incredibly simple.
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I tried the key in all the doors, even though he said he didn’t recognize it. It’s not that I didn’t trust him, becuase I did. It’s that at the end of my search I wanted to be able to say: I don’t know how I could have tried harder.
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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
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He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.
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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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Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
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