Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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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I don’t think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
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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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You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.
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As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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We aren’t exactly emptying the oceans; it’s more like clear-cutting a forest with thousands of species to create massive fields with one type of soybean.
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Let love write on you for awhile.
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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.
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Every moment before this one depends on this one.
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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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She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and she never even loved me. Now that’s love.
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And she would say, “Today you believe in God?” And he would say, “Today I believe in love”.
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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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There are only some many times you can utter “It does not hurt” before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.
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I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.
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