Words never mean what we want them to mean.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERMy wife and I have chosen to bring up our children as vegetarians. In another time or place, we might have made a different decision. But the realities of our present moment compelled us to make that choice.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and our nation to choose conscience over ease can.
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We spent our lives making livings.
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I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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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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I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.
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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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I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
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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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I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
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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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I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember,
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Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.
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The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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