You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERBeing with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.
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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 laughed enough to migrate an entire flock of birds. That was how she said yes.
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It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.
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I’d rather somebody hate what I do than be indifferent to it.
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My point is that there are a lot of forces, like the media and the general political rhetoric tells us we should have more. That we should do better than our parents and have a bigger house or a better car.
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It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
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As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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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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Silently the animal catches our glance. The animal looks at us, and whether we look away or not, we are exposed. Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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We spent our lives making livings.
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Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.
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In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days.
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Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
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I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.
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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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Sometimes I imagined stitching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love? Why does anyone ever make love?
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Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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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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The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn’t stop each other on the street to say I love you.
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This is my heart. You are touching it with your left hand. You are touching it with your left hand, not because you are left-handed, although you might be, but because I am holding it against my heart. What you are feeling is the beating of my heart. It is what keeps me alive.
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I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don’t mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.
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