I felt shame for living in a nation of unprecedented prosperity-a nation that spends a smaller percentage of income on food than any other civilization has in human history-but in the name of affordability treats the animals it eats with cruelty so extreme it would be illegal if inflicted on a dog.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERHighs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they’re nothing.” “So what’s something?” “Being reliable is something. Being good.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
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Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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People with nothing to declare carry the most.
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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 wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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I woke up once in the middle of the night, and Buckminster’s paws were on my eyelids. He must have been feeling my nightmares.
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In the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you’ve lost, what can you say about that?
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I put my hand on the doorknob because I thought maybe her hand was on the doorknob on the other side.
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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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The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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My 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.
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One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
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I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.
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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.
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She extended a hand that I didn’t know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
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