My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERMy life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERThe mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERWe talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOEREverything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERPart of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERDo you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn’t matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember,
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: “Do you like me?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERThe hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERIsn’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?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERIt has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us…on the inside, looking out.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERHe was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that you could recommend.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn’t even matter if I existed at all.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI am sure people tell you this constantly but if you looked up ‘incredibly beautiful’ in the dictionary there would be a picture of you.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERShe laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes.
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