I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERLove me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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It’s so beautiful at this hour. The sun is low, the shadows are long, the air is cold and clean. You won’t be awake for another five hours, but I can’t help feeling that we’re sharing this clear and beautiful morning.
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But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.
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What does it remember like?
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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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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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I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
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Isn’t it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we’re doing what we’re doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?
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We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it.
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The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
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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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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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Sometimes you have to put your fears in order.
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I’m sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.
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Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don’t mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.
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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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