We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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Isn’t it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we’re doing what we’re doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?
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We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
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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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We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? Do we all make the same mistakes, or has one of us gotten it right, or even just a bit less wrong, am I the imposter?
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The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
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I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
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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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Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat.
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Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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We spent our lives making livings.
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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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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.
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Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.
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