She said, “Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don’t need?” I said, “It depends on what it means to need.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERSometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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Every moment before this one depends on this one.
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Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
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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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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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Everything I did, I did because I thought it was the correct thing to do, I am not a hero, it is true, But I am not a bad person, either.
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He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that you could recommend.
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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
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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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The meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I was the tree, the world was the river.
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I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone.
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Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
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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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When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
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I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.
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The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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