But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERIsn’t it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we’re doing what we’re doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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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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I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.
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Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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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 talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.
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I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.
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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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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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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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Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.
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Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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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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We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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I don’t think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
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