You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERThanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine’s Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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The mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did.
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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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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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Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
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Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.
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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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She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.
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We spent our lives making livings.
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Also, I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year, and then you take it off and wear it.
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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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Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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Do you eat chicken because you are familiar with the scientific literature on them and have decided that their suffering doesn’t matter, or do you do it because it tastes good?
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I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
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Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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