The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment!
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
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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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Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
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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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The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It’s already happening.
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We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? Do we all make the same mistakes, or has one of us gotten it right, or even just a bit less wrong, am I the imposter?
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I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
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I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
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With writing, we have second chances.
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It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
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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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The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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I watched the sheets breathe when she breathed, like how Dad used to say that trees inhale when people exhale, because I was too young to understand the truth about biological processes.
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We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
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