But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERIronically, 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.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can’t people say what they mean at the time?
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When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
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There are still many different ways to get stuck, existentially stuck. Feeling like, “This is worthless. I’m wasting my time, and I would be wasting the time of someone who tried to read this.” It happens all the time.
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Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
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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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I was more alone than if I had been alone.
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You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It’s almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.
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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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It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all.
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He couldn’t bear to live, but he couldn’t bear to die. He couldn’t bear the thought of he making love to someone else, but neither could he bear the absence of the thought. And as for the note, he couldn’t bear to keep it, but he couldn’t bear to destroy it either.
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We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.
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I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
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It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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As long as I am thinking, I am alive.
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