Just to be a functioning adult in the world, we develop all of these layers of protection. When we see homeless people, we don’t cry, even though homeless people probably deserve our tears – you know, it’s a horrible thing.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERIt broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can’t people say what they mean at the time?
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
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Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat.
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Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
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We are not long-term beings. Not heroes of romances in many volumes. For one gesture, for one word alone, we shall make the effort. We openly admit: our creations will be temporary. We shall have this as our aim: a gesture.
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You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.
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Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.
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My point is that there are a lot of forces, like the media and the general political rhetoric tells us we should have more. That we should do better than our parents and have a bigger house or a better car.
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Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.
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We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
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But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
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This is love, she thought, isn’t it? When you notice someone’s absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?
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She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself.
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Only humans can cry tears.
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In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.
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If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.
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