We aren’t exactly emptying the oceans; it’s more like clear-cutting a forest with thousands of species to create massive fields with one type of soybean.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOEROnce you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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I’m sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.
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Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn’t someone, somewhere, laughing?
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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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In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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Art can be very political but that can’t be the purpose of art, it can’t be the driving force. It isn’t with any of the books that I love, anyway.
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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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I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember,
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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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We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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Let love write on you for awhile.
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Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
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