Ironically, the utterly unselective omnivore — “I’m easy; I’ll eat anything” — can appear more socially sensitive than the individual who tries to eat in a way that is good for society.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOEROnly humans can cry tears.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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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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I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember,
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I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!
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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
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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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Songs are as sad as the listener.
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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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It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about “Eleanor Rigby.” It’s true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong?
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The meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I was the tree, the world was the river.
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Everything I did, I did because I thought it was the correct thing to do, I am not a hero, it is true, But I am not a bad person, either.
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The philosopher Elaine Scarry has observed that “beauty always takes place in the particular.” Cruelty, on the other hand, prefers abstraction.
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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.
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