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.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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Of course food has an important cultural use in families, but there are things that have more important cultural uses in families, and broadening the conversation out simply from what’s reasonable also allows in other things.
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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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People with nothing to declare carry the most.
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Do 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?
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If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.
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When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.
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You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
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Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.
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Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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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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In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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We often use technology to save time, but increasingly, it either takes the saved time along with it, or makes the saved time less present, intimate and rich. I worry that the closer the world gets to our fingertips, the further it gets from our hearts.
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